Word: bi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other suggestions included encouraging members to write bi-yearly letters to their constituents, making a report of each House delegation mandatory at its House Committee meetings, and encouraging members to take more roll call votes so students can check to see how their representatives voted on controversial issues...
...South Africa's Angolan incursions. One compelling reason for that refusal: as a charter member of the contact group that hopes to mediate a settlement of the issue, the U.S. cannot afford to choose sides. In deed, American and Angolan officials have already made plans to resume the bi lateral discussions they began last year...
Under the ownership of the Hobby family since 1930, the Post had enjoyed a reputation for balanced and, by low-key Houston standards, diligent local coverage; it won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1965. Yet despite the bi-partisan political involvement of family members-including the paper's late chairman, William Hobby, who was Democratic Governor of Texas from 1917 to 1921, and his widow and successor Oveta Gulp Hobby, who was, under President Eisenhower, the first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare-the paper rarely crusaded. For four days after the New York Times published...
...should expect some form of serious harassment--unwanted touching, pressure for dates or sexual activity--before they graduate, according to a recent survey. And the problem is probably more severe for staff than other segments of the Harvard community, Staff members depend on continued employment at Harvard for the bi-weekly paycheck that puts food on the table, and thus are certainly more reluctant to make complaints and speak than others at Harvard. Furthermore, as Linda Cooper, the sexual harassment officer at Clark University puts it, "Secretaries sometimes expect harassment, and the [buildings and grounds] staff accept...
...committee which decided Catliff's case is composed of six of the highest NCAA officials. The committee meets bi-monthly by conference call, and grants waivers like Catliff's with a two-thirds vote...