Word: bill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...here at Baker Field, two supposed non-entities produced their own surprises. Unfortunately for Lion coach Bill Campbell, his team was every bit as bad as had been expected...
...Coach Bill McCurdy modestly admitted, "We just kicked the hell out of them...
...approval of the Energy Mobilization Board, which will speed up energy production by cutting red tape, Carter abandoned a demand that the board be empowered to override federal and state law. Unfortunately, the House Commerce Committee had not been informed by Carter operatives and had approved a bill with these powers intact. When Committee Member John Dingell learned of Carter's switch, he acidly remarked: "The Administration has the capacity to surprise its friends and please its enemies...
...credit to wholesalers and retailers. Two had agreed to comply, and he expected the other majors to go along as well. Carter tried to concentrate on energy, but his audience insisted on questioning him about Kennedy's health insurance plan. The President played up his own, less costly bill. Said Carter: "Both proposals have a lot in common. The difference in my opinion is that mine can pass...
...scrape away all the rhetoric, however, the bill boils down to what Rep. John Erlenborn (R-Ill.) calls "a political payoff in every sense of the word." By all rights, both the House and Senate versions should have followed the path of their numerous successors, slowly fading into oblivion while a committee decided it had more important things to do. But back in 1976, Jimmy Carter discovered the National Education Association--an uncommitteed and potentially powerful block of votes. So Carter promised the NEA a department of its very own and the NEA gave Carter its first endorsment...