Word: claims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Princeton and Penn State are the co-favorites to claim the team championship. The Tigers are shooting for their third consecutive title, their 10th overall, which would push them ahead of Yale for most titles...
Over six days across campus, well-publicized panels, speeches, films and performances could have helped air out malingering racial tensions at Harvard. Indeed, administrators have been quick to claim success...
Some detractors may claim that Tutu should not be elected to the Board because he lives in South Africa and thus will not be able to attend all the Overseers meetings. But the point of his candidacy is in his ability to serve as a powerful advocate for this important issue. He should be elected to serve as a political force on the Board, not as a hands-on overseer serving on several visiting committees and discussing more routine issues of University governance...
...could anger them. Says Professor Rothstein: "Whenever jurors . . . feel that a substantial amount of information is being kept from them, they are reluctant to find the defendant guilty. The more it can be made obvious that information is being shut off by the Government, the more Brendan Sullivan can claim, 'Ladies and gentlemen, they are putting blinders...
...region's long record of sectarian violence, this was the first attack to claim the life of a lawyer. Finucane's murder sent shock waves through Northern Ireland's 1,450-member legal fraternity as Protestant and Catholic lawyers alike feared that they too could become terrorist targets...