Word: claiming
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Yankees Suck sells a shirt with a warranty not many cotton products can claim: "You hate the Yankees when you go to bed. When you wake up, they still suck. We guarantee this shirt for life. The Yankees will always suck...
...fault also lies with the student body. Students need to claim their right to vote in elections. Students need to be able to express their displeasure and feel that they are being heard. Students need to influence policy at this University. Until they do, no amount of council reform will give it the student mandate candidates have been screaming about for years. The two seconds that it takes to type 'ucvote' at the fas prompt are two seconds that say to the administration: "Having a student voice matters...
Abstinence advocates claim credit for a decline in teen pregnancies, down 17% from 1990 to 1996 nationally. But there is no evidence that the abstinence message--rather than, say, more vigilant use of contraceptives--is behind the trend. The government is one year into a three-year, $6 million assessment, but so far, few reputable studies of abstinence-only programs have been conducted. "The five published evaluations of abstinence-only programs did not find a delay in the onset of sexual intercourse, but the jury is still out," says Douglas Kirby, a senior research scientist who has studied abstinence programs...
...chance to hear all these commercials collected for the first time is one reason to hail the new boxed set of Freberg's work from Rhino Records. But that's only part of the delight awaiting both fans and nonfans of Freberg, who has as much claim as anyone to the title of Great American Satirist...
...shouldn't come as a great shock that Michael Ellis is a little testy about the news media. While his weight-loss supplement Metabolife 356 is expected to generate $1 billion in sales this year, critics claim it can have damaging side effects, ranging from nervousness to strokes. To make matters worse, reporters recently discovered that Ellis, a former cop who started Metabolife in 1995, was convicted in 1990--and sentenced to five years' probation--for his small role in a methamphetamine-manufacturing ring...