Word: claims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress have sometimes been clumsy, he won his toughest congressional battle to date when the Senate narrowly went along with his request for funds to start deployment of the Safeguard antiballistic-missile system. Though he had originally planned to defer tax reform for a while, he was happy to claim some of the credit for the historic tax bill passed by the House last week...
...endangering the 24-year-old Allied occupation rights in West Berlin, which lies 110 miles inside East German territory. Unfortunately, the new initiative seemed unlikely to meet with success, since the East Germans adamantly refuse to talk with their counterparts in Bonn about West Berlin, which the East Germans claim is their territory...
...that they know more than their bosses. Older businessmen feel challenged and often bemused by what seems to be a paradoxical mixture of avarice and altruism in the corporate newcomers. The younger men, who have grown up in an era of affluence and clearly enjoyed the luxuries of suburbia, claim to reject traditional incentives. As Gordon Grand, president of Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp., says: "The days of the stick and carrot are gone...
...Protestant and Anglican churches in Africa today claim a total membership of 22 million, not including nearly 7 million members of more than 5,000 independent African sects, some of them only semi-Christian...
...motorist can forestall a $150 valve-and-ring job. Such a job is usually not needed until a car has been driven 60,000 miles. Since most motorists scrap or sell their cars before reaching that milestone, they seldom discover that additives do not do all that their makers claim...