Word: claims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FUROR over cold fusion began on March 23, as chemists B. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann shocked the scientific world with the claim that they had beaten the physicists at their own game. Other scientists were cautious, but Dan Rather dived in headfirst. He led off the CBS Evening News that night with a fusion report, gushing about "what may be a tremendous scientific advance." Only a week later, physicist Steven Jones of Brigham Young University announced that he too had been producing cold fusion independently, generating neutrons but not heat. On April 1, two Hungarian scientists said that they...
...couldn't understand how it was that Lee could claim ignorance of the military's policy when he presided over debate on that very issue...
...race for the 1988 Republican nomination, George Bush effectively eliminated Robert Dole from the race by using advertisements that accused Dole of flip-flopping on major issues. This criticism is equally applicable to the council. The council is guilty of political opportunism. Many council members claimed that they were not aware of the extent to which the military discriminated against homosexuals. Any witness to the debate surrounding the council's original call to reinstitute ROTC would be hard-pressed to find confirmation for such a claim...
...blood transfusions these days are understandably nervous. Transfusions have saved countless lives, but they have sometimes transmitted serious blood-borne diseases, including AIDS. While public health officials point out that careful testing has all but eradicated the AIDS virus from the blood supply, they have not been able to claim that transfusions are perfectly safe. Reason: about 5% of patients who receive transfusions are exposed to a virus that can cause a potentially deadly liver infection called non-A, non-B hepatitis...
...earth. Holt spotted the speeding intruder in photographs taken through an 18-in. telescope at the Palomar Observatory in Southern California, during a systematic search for asteroids passing close by, which scientists call earth grazers. Holt figures that 1989FC may be in Hermes' league, but other astronomers dispute the claim, saying the new asteroid may be only 100 yds. across. Even if the smaller size is correct, no one would want to have 1989FC land in the backyard. A 100-yd.- wide asteroid hitting the earth at a speed of nearly 50,000 m.p.h. could dig a crater a mile...