Word: 103rd
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...residence is permanent. And even in Hockey East, Northeastern lost to Yale, then beat BU, then lost to B.U...it's all got the consistency of the stock market. When nobody knows what's coming next, a few early L's can be swept out the door like the 103rd Congress...
...consequences of a divided government is gridlock. In 1948, President Harry Truman ran by campaigning against the "do nothing" Congress and prevailed. Given the Republican filibusters at the end of the 103rd Congress, Clinton could adopt a similar strategy and run against the "do nothing" 104th Congress...
Harvard administrators have called Kennedy a champion of higher education in general and of Harvard in particular. In the 103rd Congress alone, as chair of the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, (CLHR) Kennedy--responsible for every non-budgetary domestic policy that gets to the Senate floor--engineered support for six major education reform bills...
...senior Senator who directs the committee that deals most with education, Kennedy succeeded in passing six major education reform bills through the 103rd Congress alone...
...weakness in Clinton's trade crusade. Effective as he is at negotiating tougher agreements, the President has had trouble holding together the legislative coalitions he needs to get them approved. Republicans have generally supported his effort because free trade has long been a G.O.P. first principle. But as the 103rd Congress ended last week with what White House chief of staff Leon Panetta called a "cry of anguish," most Republicans were willing to abandon years of doctrine in order to score some political points. And, as was the case on health-care and campaign-finance reform, the President...