Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hill, who over the course of the last four seasons has staked a strong claim to the title of best point guard in Harvard history, will take the biggest road trip of his life in August, heading overseas for training camp preceding a seven-month season...
...early August in Ames, Iowa, have angered some Iowa Republicans. Not that Bush's view of Ames as a booby trap isn't justified. Straw polls--where participants pay to vote--can be manipulated by rivals to make front runners look bad. Bush's rivals are already starting. They claim that Bush cutouts floated the idea of "reimbursing" the state G.O.P. for canceling the event. When that didn't work, they quietly inquired whether other big-name campaigns might join Bush in skipping Ames, hoping to render it meaningless. The Bush camp denies both charges...
...admakers for the anybody-but-Bush campaigns will be busy indeed. Their drama will begin in 1997 when Bush offered an ambitious $2.8 billion tax cut that just happened to also include a number of tax increases (one enterprising campaign counts 75). Never mind that Bush can claim credit for signing the largest tax cut in Texas history; rivals will say he merely tacked his name onto a measure authored by the legislature. Enter the comptroller of the Texas currency, who may become the Governor's best friend. Last week an additional $800 million was found in the Texas budget...
...everyone agrees. "There is no such thing as online therapy," says Dr. Thomas Nagy, a psychologist, Stanford professor and author of two books on ethics. "They're missing the nonverbal clues." For example, someone could claim to feel great but look disheveled and despondent in person. In an extreme case, notes Russ Newman, executive director of the American Psychological Association, a person could be talking to the online therapist while pointing a gun at his head; a dismissive comment from the therapist might just prompt the person to pull the trigger...
...When reminded of this, said lady writer breaks into peals of embarrassed laughter. "I guess that was me," confesses Marina Warner, whose second book, Alone of All Her Sex, a study of the Virgin Mary, came out around the same time as the 1979 song. "I wish I could claim something of more distinction in terms of popular culture, but I don't know that...