Word: actioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter will need more than a carrot to rouse Congress to action...
Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd has kept things quiet by refusing to schedule votes on Fridays, thus inviting Senators to leave town Thursday night for weekend politicking back home. While floor action often runs beyond dinnertime in busier periods, the Senate has been adjourning around 5:30 p.m. Minority Leader Howard Baker jokes wryly that new members may get the wrong idea and think these hours are normal. Says he: "I have to remind them not to get used...
...Open up government purchasing to international competitive bidding. Despite the new code, Japan has refused so far to allow outsiders to bid for some of its most lucrative government business. That action has incensed the U.S., as Strauss made clear in talks last week with Japanese Foreign Minister Sunao Sonoda...
SEPARATED. W. Michael Blumenthal, 53, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; and Eileen Policy Blumenthal; after 28 years of marriage, three children. The couple separated once before, in 1977, but were reconciled the following year. No legal action is planned...
...They also say you're here because of affirmative action and that's great, but people have a way of making affirmative action seem very negative," Jones said...