Word: claims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explosion of ethnic violence in Azerbaijan a year ago caught Gorbachev without a workable nationalities policy. The Armenians are enraged by what they claim are flagrant cases of ethnic abuse against their compatriots living in Azerbaijan. Gorbachev's prestige plummeted in Armenia when he gave a finger-wagging lecture to Armenian intellectuals who had come to present their case in Moscow last summer and when he ended his snap tour of the Armenian earthquake zone last December with another outburst against nationalists...
Gore raised the injustice with IRS Acting Commissioner Michael J. Murphy, who agreed that the policy was wrong. Henceforth, he ruled, overly generous taxpayers will get refunds. The problem arises mainly for workers who retire or quit and get lump-sum pension payments but forget to claim a credit for the taxes that were withheld. Taxpayers who detect such an error as far back as 1985 can apply for repayment. The Government will even pony up interest on its unfair use of the citizens' money...
...case evolved from the testimony of Boesky, who fingered West Coast broker Boyd Jefferies. The Government alleges that GAF used Jefferies as a participant in a scheme to manipulate the price of shares in Union Carbide. Prosecutors claim that GAF, which held a large block of Carbide stock as the result of an unsuccessful bid to take over the company, tried to run up the price of the shares before selling them. After many days of technical presentations about stock trading, the jury may have become numbed by it all. Even so, federal prosecutors vowed to try the case again...
...reason: many schools would be embarrassed. Of the 20 black students who played for Memphis State University's basketball team between 1976 and 1986, for example, only one left the school with a diploma. Among the top basketball powers, only a small number -- including Duke, Georgetown and Providence College -- claim a near 100% graduation rate...
...variation on this con, excited consumers who call to claim prizes after receiving you-are-a-winner letters are asked for their credit-card numbers and card-expiration dates "as verification." The new car or microwave oven never arrives. But before long, mysterious charges begin to show up on the cards. Joel Lisker, MasterCard's vice president for security and fraud control, & estimates that thieves using such methods skimmed at least $105 million from the $120 billion in U.S. credit-card transactions last year...