Word: bill
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...budget, then stand up like men and answer the roll call and cut what they think ought to be cut. Then the President will exercise his responsibility of approving it or rejecting it and vetoing it." He went so far as to accuse conservatives of holding up the tax bill so that they could "blackmail" him into approving cuts-almost all of which would come out of his cherished Great Society programs. A President had not used such strong tones with Congress since 1944, when F.D.R. vetoed another tax bill* and Alben Barkley, tears streaming down his face, resigned...
...bill," said Roosevelt, "but a tax-relief bill, not for the needy but the greedy. . ." Beyond that, he said, Congress had been sloppy in writing the bill, "using language which not even a dictionary or a thesaurus can make clear...
...militancy paid off. White merchants, disturbed by a black Christmas-shopping boycott, helped to pressure the Common Council into enacting an open-occupancy statute that matched a state law and covered some 33% of the city's housing units. When Congress last month passed the federal open-housing bill in the aftermath of the riot-commission report and Martin Luther King's assassination, Mayor Henry Maier asked the council for an ordinance to keep pace with the federal...
...last year and finished a distant second to the 76ers in the N.B.A.'s Eastern Division this season. Over the long haul, the Boston Celtics might be the most successful team in the history of pro sport, but now they were over the hill. Their coach and center, Bill Russell, was 34. So was Guard Sam Jones. Forward Bailey Howell was 31; Captain John Havlicek was a youngster at 28. It sounded mostly like pride talking when one Boston player said: "What difference does it make if you are 90, as long as you can play basketball...
They will probably get it, says Magnuson, who makes no bones about supporting archaeology and sponsored a bill that became law in 1960 requiring the National Park Service to explore any archaeological sites threatened by dam building. The Senator can speak with some confidence. He is chairman of the Senate subcommittee that controls appropriations for the National Science Foundation...