Word: claiming
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CLEVELAND LEADS THE NATION? An unlikely claim in the best of times. Today it may be harder to point out any areas of distinction. Cleveland's rock culture is overshadowed even in Ohio by Devo and the other New Wave spuds sprouting in Akron, while readers of Fortune will note Cleveland's fall from third to fourth among corporate headquarters for major U.S. industrials. The businessmen may be inclined to blame the latter on Mayor Dennis Kucinich...
...politicians who promise to safeguard their jobs in the short-run by restricting imports. But over the long haul, such a policy will only hurt these workers as consumers. And worse, scrapping free trade ultimately will erode the long-term welfare of the American worker, which protectionist politicians claim so vigorously to protect...
SCOTT COUNTY, Tennessee doesn't lay much claim to attracting attention: The Appalachian ridge area last received publicity when it declared war against Hitler before Pearl Harbor. But Scott County has yet another headline on the way. From the heart of the fundamentalist coal-mining community comes the Republican Party's highest elected official and newest presidential contender--Sen. Howard H. Baker, Jr. After twelve years on the Senate sidelines, watching party colleagues like Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford carry the ball and fumble, and three vice-presidential nominations, the 54-year-old Senate minority leader now thinks...
...government says that the blacks are divided. They claim that the urban blacks are at odds with the rural blacks and that you are strongly divided along tribal lines...
...team has no coach but appoints captains to instruct team members. "Everybody gets in a game. We switch them in at the half and no coach can claim that," explained Schember...