Word: 97th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...audience was dressed to the hilt-formal wear was mandatory for the occasion, the 97th Annual Gridiron dinner thrown by the Washington press corps. But that did not prevent members from poking fun at Honored Guest Nancy Reagan, 60, and her reputation for the name-wear of haute couture. They produced a barbed, post-dinner skit, to the tune of Second Hand Rose, that featured such lines as "Secondhand dress/ Goodbye, you old worn-out mess/ I never wear a frock more than once/ Calvin Klein, Adolfo, Ralph Lauren and Bill Blass/ Ronald Reagan's mamma's going...
Most Congressmen felt that the New Federalism was simply irrelevant to the real issues facing the second session of the 97th Congress, and they vented wrath at Reagan from both sides of the aisle for ignoring the problems of deficits and unemployment. Republican leaders on the Hill fear that they will have to come up with their own plan to cope with the unacceptably high deficits, without any support Tom Reagan. The first problem will be to pass the badly unbalanced 1983 budget the President plans to submit next week. "Are any Republicans going to vote for it?" asked Robert...
Also finishing the race for Harvard were freshman Jenny Stricker (55th, 19:02), senior captain Kristen Linsley (83rd, 19:28), senior Mary Herlihy (97th, 19:41); freshman Mary Jeanne Barrett (123rd, 20:04), and freshman Amy Simon (138th...
Assistant Senate Majority Leader Ted Stevens has scheduled hearings next month to examine the problems. Even David Stockman, President Reagan's budget cutter, acknowledges that something must be done. But the stingy 97th Congress may not want to listen...
When asked before last week's budget vote whether the Democrats, who control the House, could hold together, Speaker Tip O'Neill replied sadly that in most other countries they would be splintered ideologically into five parties. If anything, he was understating the disorganization of the 97th Congress, which is riven into blocs representing regional, ethnic and economic as well as philosophical interests: there is a northeastern caucus, a black caucus, a steel caucus, even a mushroom caucus, dedicated to defending mushroom-growing constituents against foreign competition. In all this factionalism, one group of conservative Democrats has acquired...