Word: claims
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...seekers sometimes hire "search consultants" and go to great lengths, even illegal ones, to find their kin. "I'm calling about a probate matter" and "I'm doing genealogy" are typical little white lies. Many justify their actions with the claim that they are victims of adoption, robbed of their heritage or shamed into giving up an illegitimate child. Their anger and desperation have led some psychologists to conclude that adoption leaves a permanent wound. "Birth parents and adoptees are amputees in our society," says Los Angeles psychologist Annette Baran, who specializes in adoption- related counseling. Says she: "I think...
...areas where I felt that we needed to use the tax system to achieve various ends." Democratic leaders too have lost the faith; their proposed expansion of IRAs would also violate the no-special-breaks principle. Consequently, Congress can expect a flood of demands from other taxpayers who will claim that their income deserves special treatment. Writing in the Washington Post, Senator Bradley gloomily predicted that "the llama farmers, along with all the other dealmakers and tax-shelter merchants who had shut up shop, will put the OPEN FOR BUSINESS sign back in the window...
...Sony is only one of the foreign investors rushing to claim a stake in Hollywood. In the past year, Britain's Television South bought MTM Enterprises, Australia's Qintex Group reached an agreement to take over MGM/ UA, and Italian financier Giancarlo Parretti acquired control of Hollywood's struggling Cannon Group, an action-picture mill...
...brief states," A club which receives any significant portion of its funds from nonmembers cannot claim to be private." The complainants' repsonse contends that graduate contributions are "substantially similar" to the amount of membership dues in one year. The document estimates total membership dues at $27,000 to $35,100 for 1988 and non-member--graduate--contributions...
...Membership clubs in which the members do not hold club property or otherwise do not have exclusive control over the government and activities of the organization cannot claim to be private," the response states. Because the club property is held by a trust controlled by non-member, graduate trustees and the government of the club consists of 14 graduate members and two present members of the Fly, the document alleges that it cannot claim to be a solely undergraduate organization...