Word: acted
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...month's election, Massachusetts' Edward Brooke, the Senate's only black. No black will hold a committee chairmanship or leadership position for either party in the 96th Congress. The Black Caucus claims credit for the passage this year of the Humphrey-Hawkins Bill, but the diluted act simply outlined goals for full employment rather than authorizing the means to achieve it. The Caucus was effective in creating the "minority set-aside program," which earmarks 10% of federal construction funds for black and Hispanic contractors...
After Israel proclaimed its independence, Ben-Gurion named her as the new nation's first ambassador to Moscow. He later made her Minister of Labor, then Foreign Minister, a post in which she stoutly supported his policy of tough retaliation for every act of Arab sabotage or raid. Said Ben-Gurion: "She is the only man in my Cabinet." Overall, she had a love-hate relationship with Israel's blustery, impulsive first Premier. At his behest, she Hebraized her last name from Meyerson to Meir (meaning illumination). Privately she referred to Ben-Gurion as "that...
...Premier, she was ruthlessly realistic throughout the so-called war of attrition; her response to any Arab raid or act of terrorism was to order even heavier counterviolence. "We are finished with gimmicks-with observers and emergency forces and demilitarized zones and armistices," she said. "It is a mistake to consider that the reason for the conflict between us is over some territory. We can compromise about that. They don't want us here. That's what it is all about. They don't want us, period...
...their home state, according to the trade monthly Successful Meetings, though cheaper airfares are beginning to encourage more adventuresomeness. In the decade before 1977, 12% of national organizations met or scheduled future meetings outside the U.S. That percentage has slipped slightly because of section 602 of the Tax Reform Act of 1976. Americans can now deduct expenses for only two foreign meetings a year, and then only if they can prove that they spent at least six hours a day in working sessions. The American Psychiatric Association, which met in Toronto last May, issued each delegate IBM cards...
...them were. The A.T.A. itself gave the final banquet, featuring Bob Hope (fee for his act: $45,000). It also gave a luncheon of chicken curry and boeuf stroganoff for 50 of the hotel staff, which had scooped up perhaps $100,000 in tips during the four days. That's convention business...