Word: ayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...belly, like the world was all empty. I missed them whales when they were gone. 'Tis strange. Some folks say as whales are only fish. No, bye! They's too smart for fish. I don't say as what they's not the smartest creatures in God's ocean. Aye and maybe out of it as well...
...Aye, and maybe...
...Rules. The spirit of reform also swept through the Senate, where liberal Democrats and Republicans curbed the filibuster. Under the new rules, the Senate can limit debate if 60 of its 100 members vote aye. In the past, two-thirds of all those present and voting had to assent to cloture. Last year no major legislation was talked to death on the floor. Nor did the reformers stop with these important changes. Both the Senate and the House voted to open key committee and conference meetings-heretofore held in private-to press and public...
...compromise was overwhelmingly approved by the delegates, who clearly delighted in their new peacemaking image. Even Mayor Richard Daley, who had been excluded by McGovernites from the 1972 convention, and the Illinois delegation voted aye, producing a standing ovation from the delegates, including a group of blacks only a few feet from the beaming Daley. But approval was not unanimous, particularly in the labor ranks...
...present economic climate, with inflation approaching 20%, is more serious than anything the country has faced since the 1930s. But it still seems to be something better understood by economists and merchant bankers than by the man in the street. As Jimmy Buchanan, a Scottish shipyard worker observes: "Aye, you can read about it, but you can't feel it much...