Word: bentsens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Athens slandered Sparta. "Houston," says Dallas Mayor Jack Evans of the grittier rival city, "doesn't wear well." Besides, add Dallas chauvinists, Houstonians are the ugly Americans of Texas. Dallasites, responds Houston Post Columnist Lynn Ashby, "are the Swiss of Texas." What is more, says Houston Businessman Lan Bentsen, Dallas residents "have no sense of humor...
...postseason Cotton Bowl game from Dallas, where it has been played for the past 45 years. "They have more chance of moving the stadium than they do the game," declares John F. Scovell, president of the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association and a prominent Dallas real estate developer. Says Bentsen, who organized the theft attempt: "If it's a feud, it's a positive...
Still, the Senate committee's final statement on Casey was a compromise. Some Senators, including Washington's Henry Jackson, Texas' Lloyd Bentsen and Rhode Island's John Chafee, had urged the committee to express its "absolute confidence" in Casey. Others, including Goldwater, New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Delaware Democrat Joseph Biden, wanted to avoid any pronouncement until the investigation of Casey's background was complete. Instead, the committee found him merely "not unfit" to continue...
...voters angry over specific proposed budget cuts. Still, many members of Congress sensed a new willingness to sacrifice among Americans and an admirable sophistication toward the economic issues. "There is more of this mood than I've seen in a long, long time," noted Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen. "People are looking more long-term than short-term," the Democrat added, citing a general preference for tax cuts that would stimulate business over personal tax breaks as one such sign...
...movement to limit Japanese imports is also gathering strength on Capitol Hill. The International Trade Subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee will begin hearings this week on a bill sponsored by Lloyd Bentsen of Texas and John Danforth of Missouri to restrict the sale of Japanese cars.* The Bentsen-Danforth Bill would limit Japanese auto imports to 1.6 million cars annually for the next three years. While that proposal is not now expected to pass Congress, it will keep pressure on the Japanese to agree to a voluntary restriction...