Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House then passed a statement of intent to accept all of Dukakis' package, 13-32. The Senate had approved the entire plan formally last Tuesday, 20-14. Yesterday the House passed the first reading of the bill without attempting to amend...
...patience of Congress with the Administration's seemingly stringless military aid to the government of El Salvador clearly is running out. In a confused legislative situation, three separate committees last week moved to amend President Reagan's decision to transfer to El Salvador $60 million in military funds previously appropriated for Morocco. Said one Administration official wryly: "We have never had a four-handed policymaking game before...
While committee discussion yesterday seemed to indicate that an amend name would insure the club's approval several members said they were skeptical that a semantic change provided any guarantee against the club conducting ROTC recruiting and other operations prohibited by 1969 Faculty legislation...
...town. He was outspoken and steadfast in his support of a police department that was regarded by black leaders and liberals as particularly highhanded and even brutal, especially while he had been its chief, in the patrolling of Philadelphia's black neighborhoods. When he tried to amend the city charter in 1978 so he could run for a third consecutive term, blacks registered and voted in unprecedented numbers in a successful effort to checkmate his move. Now, after a three-year retirement, the redoubtable Rizzo, 62, is running again, hoping to succeed Democratic Incumbent Mayor William Green...
...aimlessly much of the time, questioning why they are on campus at all, doubting whether there is any point in what they are doing, and looking toward a very bleak existence afterward in a game in which all of the rules have been made up, which one cannot really amend...