Word: armstrong
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...Barber Conable of New York and former Social Security Commissioner Robert Ball, huddled repeatedly with Baker, Budget Director David Stockman and other Administration officials to hammer out a package of compromises. Half a block away, at the commission's offices, five conservative members, headed by Republican Senator William Armstrong of Colorado, chairman of the Senate Social Security Subcommittee, held sessions aimed at countering the emerging accord, which, they charged, relied too heavily on new taxes and too little on spending cuts. Greenspan, who had assumed the role of mediator in the panel's past imbroglios, scurried between...
...like a hockey game out there," said Colorado's Republican Senator, William Armstrong. "If there's a trivial issue it's handled scrupulously, with hearings and rules. But really important issues are handled in an atmosphere of chaos and pandemonium." So it seemed all too logical that the Donnybrook Fair that erupted on Capitol Hill last week would culminate in another brawl between Congress and the White House, this time over public jobs spending, that threatened to shut down the Federal Government...
...future benefits to be paid to aged pensioners. The commission does not want to recommend such politically unpalatable steps unless it can get some signal from President Reagan and Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the Democratic-controlled House, that they will support the findings. Commission Member William Armstrong, a Republican Senator from Colorado, explains: "If we come up with a solution that is not precleared with at least those two figures ... it will just get shot down about five minutes after we announce...
...Scruggs for initiating a monument to the Viet Nam dead and thereby giving veterans peace with honor. Robert E. Armstrong West Lafayette...
...country, about 150 names made the working lists. Last month TIME again asked its news bureaus for lists of people outside politics who might be presidential. The exercise yielded a national total of only 21 names. Among them: two former astronauts, Frank Borman, president of Eastern Airlines, and Neil Armstrong, oil-equipment executive; Chairman Robert O. Anderson of Atlantic Richfield; Lee lacocca of Chrysler; James Bere of Borg-Warner; Thomas Wyman of CBS; President Hanna Gray, University of Chicago; Marvin Goldberger, Caltech; Bartlett Giamatti of Yale; and, inevitably, Walter Cronkite...