Word: assisters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even as the special prosecutor was forced to take legal steps to compel the turnover of White House evidence, the House Judiciary Committee, headed by New Jersey Democrat Peter Rodino, received a forward assist in its investigation of presidential conduct. Moving swiftly, federal courts on two levels ordered that a grand jury report dealing specifically with Nixon's Watergate role must be given this week to Rodino for the impeachment inquiry...
Neither the Braves nor the Pistons would have made the play-offs without an assist from a newly amended rule book. Beginning this year, play-off berths no longer go to the first two teams in each of the four N.B.A. divisions. Instead, only divisional winners automatically qualify; a third-place team like the Pistons (behind Milwaukee and Chicago in the Midwest) can beat out a second-place team in the Pacific division if the third-place finisher has the better record. Buffalo, trailing Boston and New York in the Atlantic division, displaced second-ranking Atlanta in the Central division...
...many parts of the U.S., in fact, nature has begun to reclaim its property - with a necessary assist from concerned people and governments, and at an enormous price. The reclamation is often underwritten by America's 26,022,547 licensed anglers; every penny of the $107 million they pay in license fees is used to support conservation programs...
Kieffer, connected with the population and humanitarian assistance division of AID, said Congressional cutbacks were reducing AID's ability to assist countries in developing methods of population control...
...Washington apartment. Liddy told the other two that certain "commitments" had been made to himself and others who had carried out the Watergate breakin. (Apparently the commitments were from Hunt to the others that if anything went wrong with the operation his White House friends would assist them and their families...