Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Neill and Bob Byrd, appear to sense a certain weakness in the President, and so they are assembling small fiefs around themselves. They agree with his programs-mostly. They want him to succeed-mostly. But they are not certain about him, and so they stand at arm's length, making sure they protect their own turf. A little of the power that Carter surely lost in the Lance affair was gathered in by Bob Byrd...
Often outmaneuvered by the left during the 1960s, the right has now copied the enemy's tactics. Like COPE, the political arm of the AFL-CIO, the New Right has plunged into the grass roots, ringing doorbells, phoning and passing out leaflets. Like the student left, the rightists have taken to the streets to demonstrate. And can they pack a meeting! Feminists everywhere were in an uproar last summer when they found that their state caucuses for the International Women's Year were infiltrated and sometimes taken over by conservative militants deriding ERA and opposing abortion...
...after making her first and only save of the first half, Seidler was caught short on the rebound. Wheaton's Holly Arm-strong knocked the ball past her and into the Harvard net to tie the score at 1-1 with 12:35 gone...
Realizing that making arrests can be a sure way to impress department brass and win promotion, cops grab all the "perpetrators" they can put the arm on, but in their eagerness may neglect rudimentary procedures for gathering proof of the crime that will stand up well in court. With predictable results. In the course of a year, 31% of the Washington cops who made arrests produced no convictions whatsover...
...Congressional district. The goal was to get thousands of consumers "to shower Congress with nickels and letters" in support of legislation to create an agency for consumer protection. The drive is the brainchild of Congress Watch, a collection of eight lawyers who operate as Public Citizen's lobbying arm on Capital Hill, and of its director, Mark Green...