Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While students claim the tuition increase could be avoided if B.U. eliminates certain expenditures, John R. Silber, president of B.U., said in a statement released last week the nation's 7 per cent inflation rate necessitates the increase. B.U.'s tuition, room and board costs are set at $6280 for the academic year...
Proponents claim the Core guarantees students a broad liberal arts aducation, by requiring them to take courses in certain selected disciplines. They say the Core will supply students with a much needed guideline for selecting among the thousands of courses offered. Supporters also view the Core as a measure to prevent pre-professionalism from dictating a narrow course of study to students...
...given all the harm Greene has seen done in the name of ideological purity around the globe. Still, just as in his other novels it takes the Church to shake his heroes out of their boozy battles with doubt and despair, here it takes someone else making a moral claim on Castle to spur him to act. When he finally defects to save his neck, and settles down as an honorary Soviet citizen, he does so only out of a reluctant sense of personal loyalty. There may be personal heroism involved here, but it is all done grudgingly...
...daunt Moro's captors, who last Saturday night issued "Communiqué No. 2" almost simultaneously in Rome, Milan, Turin and Genoa. The 1,700-word message, a rambling revolutionary harangue about the "menace of imperialist terrorism," made no demand for an exchange of prisoners. It did claim that Moro was being "interrogated" and warned that he would be given "proletarian justice." The police said they had no reason to doubt the authenticity of the ominous communiqu...
...these Fuller's only transgressions. In 1975 he published Arigo: Surgeon of the Rusty Knife, an approving look at a South American "psychic surgeon." Then, a year ago, Fuller brought out The Ghost of Flight 401, in which he credulously describes the experiences of flight crew members who claim to have seen apparitions of colleagues killed in a plane crash...