Word: adjourned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...today, some make as much as $20,000 a year dealing their wares. At the dozen major annual U.S. trading conventions, the casual aficionado can wander down aisles crowded with tables of cards-some heaped in shoe boxes, others displayed in expensive leather briefcases. The hardcore collectors adjourn to private rooms where big deals among three or more people are negotiated during all-night poker games. "When the hobby started, it was all trading," says Frank Nagy, a 54-year-old Detroit mechanic who in 40 years of collecting has amassed over a million cards. "Now the only...
...Harvard designed to create new combinations of DNA in the bacterium Escherichia coli K12, or E. coli for short, stirred passionate debate last year (TIME cover, April 18). Last week, after long hearings, Congress was scheduled to act on two bills seeking to control such research. The rush to adjourn forced a postponement of action until after the summer recess, but the issue remains very much alive...
Only six members of the family adjourn to the dining room a few minutes later. Amy has already eaten. Chip and Caron are going out to dinner. The family hold hands around the table while Annette, Jeffs wife, says grace, and Ely Young, a tall black waiter in a tuxedo, prepares to serve the meal: pork chops, boiled broccoli and mashed potatoes...
With antigovernment sentiment on the rise, Labor whips hoped to end debate without a vote on the White Paper by moving to adjourn the House of Commons. When it became clear that Labor could not even muster a majority on that, Callaghan and his grinning supporters stayed on their benches while opposition members filed out to vote. Did the resounding 293-to-0 defeat mean the government's White Paper was dead? Technically no, since the vote was only on whether to go home for a night's sleep...
Before we all adjourn for intersession, I thought this would be an opportune moment to fill you in on some fastbreaking news items that have crossed this desk in the past few days. Some of you probably aren't getting your Times delivered anyway so this hot copy might have passed...