Word: claiming
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...start-up, founded by two Harvard students, offers discounted prices on airfares and taxis to and from Logan Airport and has also promised to bring a ride-sharing feature to campus. The site’s owners claim that they “will continue to expand our product and service offerings until GetOutOfCambridge.com serves as the one-stop shop for traveling students.” This is a worthy goal, even if the organization is a for-profit enterprise. The new website is especially useful for students, who usually travel with strict budget constraints...
...Kansas, based group that loosely uses religious principles to justify a universally offensive agenda of hate. To further this agenda, they have taken to protesting at high schools, Elton John concerts, and even at the funerals of our soldiers. They typically carry banners with offensive anti-homosexual slogans and claim that the attacks of 9/11 and the casualties in the Iraq War were punishment for America’s acceptance of gay rights. Their highly objectionable tactics have largely been met with mockery, disdain, and vocal opposition. The Westboro Baptist Church has essentially succeeded in offending rational people at every...
...First off, everybody needs to cool it: Globalization is not going anywhere anytime soon. Second, nationalism never departed. The claim that countries have been growing over the past 25 years because of pure market deregulation across the board is false. The idea of the “unfettered market” is nothing but a wild myth...
...first clue comes in the bewildering slew of acronyms that clog up every discussion of the situation. RIRA - the self-styled Real IRA - has said that it killed the soldiers, while CIRA - Continuity IRA - laid claim to gunning down Carroll. Factional splits and bloody internecine feuds were long a feature of the covert paramilitary republican movement, and RIRA and CIRA are dissident groups dedicated to destabilizing the peace process. Both groups are breakaways from the Provisional IRA, which, together with its political wing, Sinn Fein, have embraced power-sharing in Northern Ireland and renounced violence. The dissidents accuse them...
...Western Europeans. Then came the bubble. After financial markets were liberalized in the 1980s, Japan went on a debt-fueled binge that made modern Americans look as thrifty as Amish farmers. The stock market soared into the stratosphere, and property prices went so haywire that it was common to claim that the land on which the Imperial Palace sits in the center of Tokyo was worth more than California...