Word: adjourn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demanding last month that Congress produce a deficit-trimming budget without resort to accounting gimmickry or tax increases, George Bush knew he might as well have ordered the sun not to rise. Last week, as Congress raced to adjourn before the Thanksgiving holiday, it sent the President a final 1990 budget bill lopping $14.7 billion off the deficit -- thanks, of course, to gimmicks and a $5.6 billion increase in what people outside the Washington Beltway usually call taxes. Without a murmur of protest or the slightest hint of a blush, Bush agreed to sign the measure into...
...including any of you that protested that night, that the UC is a forum with a procedure to guarantee in a fair manner that people can speak, that they will not be shouted down, or that the process be so disrupted that meetings will have to be adjourned. Let me tell you that when the meeting had been forced to adjourn, I was at first elated by this Pyrrhic victory, thinking something to the effect of "that will show them." Show what? I now wonder. Show that even at Harvard, undergraduates can be shouted down by fellow undergraduates...
...council Chair Kenneth E. Lee '89 was forced to adjourn the meeting early when a single protester roused the overflow crowd into a noisy demonstration...
...moments that followed, my immediate relief and satisfaction turned into anger and indignation. Both parties involved in the debate resorted, on alternate occasions, to attempts to disrupt the meeting. Those unhappy with the decision to overturn last week's action attempted to adjourn the meeting. Members remarked that other parts of the agenda meant nothing in the new context. Although I deeply respect many members of this faction, I believed that the designated agenda for the meeting should not have been ignored as a knee-jerk reaction to the passage of a resolution they opposed. While Frank Lockwood proposed...
Keverian's decision to adjourn until next Monday is an indication that many state programs--whose funding is already dangerously depleted--will run out of money before the State Senate has a chance to approve the supplemental budget...