Word: adjournment
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...outlook is clarity itself compared with the confusion swirling through Washington about policy to deal with recession and inflation. Fissures have opened within the Administration, between the White House and Republican leaders on Capitol Hill, between Senate and House G.O.P. leaders. And there is strong sentiment in Congress to adjourn for the year shortly before Thanksgiving without doing much of anything...
Lawyers for a University employee arrested two weeks ago shortly before the start of an anti-apartheid demonstration he had helped organize agreed yesterday to adjourn preliminary hearings until tomorrow...
King's legislative proposal for reorganization of the debt-plagued MBTA was soundly defeated last week, but King has not yet filed amended legislation. He allowed the legislature to adjourn Thursday without taking action to resolve the crisis...
Calling herself "reluctant to predict definitely," Jane Corlette of the office of government relations said yesterday she expects a Republican push in the Senate to adjourn the extended session after both houses approve the funds necessary to maintain federal operations through January...
...have been more swayed by the second argument, professing loudly their belief that the legislators will surely come through with the money needed to prevent layoffs and cutbacks. But the Massachusetts legislature acts in the public interest only once a year, and that's the day it votes to adjourn and return to their law offices for the summer. This legislature has never been a great friend of tax reform--they created the present system and they have maintained it ever since, for a very simple reason. Increased state taxes might anger voters enough to occasion their removal from office...