Word: barbarae
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ability to sort out the conflicting needs of his colleagues is legendary. Ten years ago, when Connecticut Representative Barbara Kennelly was a new member of Rostenkowski's committee, she went to him for help in getting legislative changes that would allow the city of Hartford to issue bonds needed to pay for a new waste-treatment plant. Rostenkowski instructed his staff to draw up the necessary amendment. Just a day or two later, he came back to her with a request: to co-sponsor a controversial measure affecting Medicaid fee assignments for physicians. Though it would open her to political...
CONTRIBUTORS: Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Nina Burleigh, Stanley W. Cloud, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...
...Faculty supported the resolution by a large majority in order to act as a "counterweight" to Powell's invitation, according to Professor of English and Comparative Literature Barbara E. Johnson, who sponsored the vote...
With a 7-1 record, the team was undoubtedly riding high. But suddenly, in the middle of the trip, the team hit a brick wall. Four dominating California teams took their turns at beating on the Crimson, as UC-Santa Barbara (6-3), UC-San Diego (9-0) and UCLA (9-1) and Pepperdine (7-2) all garnered wins...
...Barbara B. Kerner '44 says she remembers"people would miss classes and hold peace strikesat Memorial Hall" before Peal Harbor...