Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your article "Flower Power on the Plains" [Nov. 26], you claim that sunflower oil contains less cholesterol than oils made from corn or soybeans. The truth is, there's no cholesterol in any of these oils, naturally. Cholesterol occurs only in foods of animal origin...
...vulnerable. Their agreement was extracted by a British concession in a numbers game. It gave the Front forces a 16th camp in the Rhodesian heartland and empowered the newly arrived British Governor, Lord Soames, to designate additional concentrations, if the guerrillas report in the large numbers that they claim. The current British estimate is 20,000 men; the Front says it has some...
...picture for years and then reap a tax benefit by giving it to a museum at its enhanced value, fueled the art boom. The inequity of such laws has been that, if the artist gives his own work to the same museum in the same year, he cannot claim its fair market price as a write-off: all that the IRS gives him back is the cost of canvas and paint. The unfairness is compounded when the artist dies: the state then assesses the paintings in his estate at their highest market value and makes his heirs...
...city hall because owners were forced to abandon them for nonpayment of real estate taxes. Raymond's crews have partly weatherized every one of the structures. But, says Raymond, "there are just too many buildings out there," and more are abandoned by landlords every week?of- ten, the owners claim, because regulations do not allow rent hikes high enough to pay fuel bills. In International Falls, Minn., the coldest town in the Lower 48 and the spot where Sears tests its Diehard batteries, a community energy-education program is well established. "We started out in 1975," says County Agent...
...regime can ever be asserted as full-throatedly as before. Those televised sweeping panoramas of massed Iranians seem to dispute whatever public support the Shah once had. The Shah's secret police may not have tortured so widely or viciously as the Ayatullah's propagandists claim, but at least some torture seems to be conceded. How many millions of dollars the Shah and his family got away with-those "umpteen billions," in Kennedy's phrase-amounts to a quarrel about numbers...