Word: 95th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Driving toward adjournment by mid-November, the 95th Congress last week was embroiled in the toughest struggle of its ten-month opening session. Contentious, unpredictable and highly independent of the new man in the White House, the lawmakers faced a politically unpleasant task: fashioning an energy bill designed to reduce the nation's dangerous dependence on imported oil?a piece of legislation likely to take money out of just about everybody's pocket. Their situation was aptly described by Indiana's John Brademas, the House Democratic whip: "It is tough enough with separation of powers and the absence of disciplined...
...praise for his heady pace. "I remember in this room last May," he said with a smile, "someone asked me if my Administration was all style and no substance. Lately the criticisms have been that there's too much substance and not enough style." Yet the much-maligned 95th has had a productive first session, and it stands a good chance of atoning in 1978 for some of its miscues...
...where the most people die," Stetton points out that the world we live in is full of risks. "It would be interesting to try and list, in order of degree, the number of dangers we live with, and if we did, I think that recombinant DNA would be about 95th," Stetton says...
...survey showed Harvard's professors are in the 95th percentile for salary and fringe benefits. In the academic year 1976-77, Harvard professors received an average...
Cozy Chatter. In a gush of good will, the 95th Congress convened amid clinking glasses, receptions that stumbled on into the evening hours and cozy chatter about a new comradeship between Capitol Hill and the White House. Nearly 200 children of all ages gamboled about the House floor as all but one of the 435 Representatives (Illinois' Morgan Murphy was absent for a funeral) attended the opening ceremonies, many bringing their families. In the Senate, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller presided over the opening rituals as one of his final official acts in the fading Republican Administration. In both chambers...