Word: bill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Penn did threaten occasionally during the half, but the few Quaker shots went over the crossbar or wide. Harvard goalkeeper Bill Blood earned his keep by racing off the line to punch the ball clear on a number of dangerous crosses...
Directed by Mark Rydell Screenplay by Bill Kerby and Bo Goldman...
...says Boston Herald American Editor Donald Forst, "I don't think that a story about a public figure having a relationship with a woman other than his wife is all that significant." Most editors agree that news judgments must be made on a case-by-case basis. Says Bill German, managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle: "I try to measure these stories by the everyday and common standards. Are they correct, pertinent, newsy and fair...
...also dispatched a team of high-powered lobbyists to work up House and Senate support. Much of the pressuring was concentrated on Wisconsin's Proxmire, who had let it be known that he would be in no great hurry to have his committee report out an aid bill before Christmas. Though Proxmire's opposition to the bailout is genuine enough, by last week he had agreed to a Riegle request that his hearings on the bill be moved forward from Nov. 19 to next week, so that they could be finished before the Thanksgiving recess...
...aide explained, is actually the amount of additional oil revenues-not profits-that the companies will receive as a result of decontrol of domestic crude oil prices over the next ten years. What Carter meant to say, the aide insisted, was that the Senate version of the windfall tax bill will leave the industry with $130 billion more in profits from decontrol than the House measure. Other aides meanwhile tried to downplay and defuse the remarks the President made a week earlier about "punitive actions" that might be taken against the oil majors if the windfall tax did not meet...