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Word: claims (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Razo, a Harvard varsity football player, turned to PCP to combat this confusion. His defense had centered around the claim that his confession to the burglaries was spurred by a PCP-induced psychosis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An American Dream Sours; Razo Convicted of Robberies | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...make the exodus possible, he said, Hungary decided to suspend a 1969 agreement with East Germany, a Warsaw Pact ally, saying Hungary should not take into account West Germany's claim to East Germans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hungary Opens Gate for E. Germans | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...again, doing the vintage songs in new ways, singing the newer songs as if they'd just been minted. Dylan perpetually remakes himself, reshapes his work. He has made history, but even the most dedicated fan knows that Dylan's history is peculiar, part of the past with a claim on the future, but existing in a kind of new space, a new tense: the present imperfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rolling Stones: Roll Them Bones | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

...prize possession, a 1,000-acre ranch known as El Napoles, even had a private zoo stocked with giraffes, dwarf elephants, rhinoceroses and some 2,000 other exotic animals, many imported illegally from Africa. President Barco decreed that the drug lords can get their property back only if they claim it in person and prove it was acquired with profits from legitimate business, not drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Too Far | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

...weeks. The strike was called to protest the army's latest method for controlling troublemakers: a computerized ID card listing any previous criminal charges that all Gaza men aged 16 to 60 must now carry. The army says about 65,000 of the cards have been issued; Palestinians claim to have confiscated and destroyed thousands of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Is the Intifadeh Losing Steam? | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

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