Word: bill
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...weighed against the inconveniences to students and professors. A plan to end hot breakfasts in all but a few Houses last year, for example, created such an uproar it was withdrawn. "I don't think students are as interested in the marginal $20 or $50 savings on an $8000 bill as they are in the quality of life," Kaufmann says. So officials have so far avoided introducing money-saving measures like requiring pre-registration for courses or abolishing second servings at meals...
...House voted 215-201 to approve the bill and sent it on to President Carter, who will sign the bill into law as soon as someone finds him a quill pen. Carter has been after this one since 1976, when he traded a promise to create the new agency for the endorsement of his campaign from the all-powerful National Education Association (NEA), an agency that had never before lent its clout to a political candidate...
Supporters of the bill, however, answer that Bok's fears are unjustified--they say the bill contains the strongest provision in history for preventing needless intervention...
...Crimson, running their third race in six days, set the pace early and were in good position going into the back hills at about 1 1/2 miles. Coach Bill McCurdy's tactics involved trying to press for the first mile and staking out some territory before hitting the grueling back loop...
Many of the bill's opponents, moreover, voiced fears that the department would become the mouthpiece for the National Educational Association, the group which joined the White House to lobby for the bill. If so, then college officials need not worry about more regulation; the NEA has traditionally focused on primary and secondary education...