Word: bill
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Agreeing that more must be done to aid the veterans of Viet Nam, Carter has pledged to support extending the G.I. Bill of Rights and promised to push for special vocational rehabilitation programs for the disabled. Capitol Hill too has been demonstrating a new attitude toward the vets. One reason may be that the number of Viet Nam veterans in Congress now totals 19. Last week, after having rejected a somewhat similar Senate bill four times in the past eight years, the House voted 342 to 0 to appropriate $16 million for psychological, alcoholic and drug counseling for Viet...
...farm in the Catskills, presided over by a formidable middle-aged woman named Anna. She is headmistress of a progressive day school, and Mary Ann and Lolly, the girls, are her students. The other adults are Mary Ann's mother Honey, a fortyish Southern belle, and her father Bill, a stuffy but decent bureaucrat who runs a Government poverty program. They are soon joined by Lolly's parents, Celia, a pretty, distracted woman in her 20s, and Dan, an easy-riding adman in his late 40s. Dan and Honey turn out to be habitual flirts, and though neither...
...life is changed drastically during the highly charged weekend. Circumstances and scratchy pride keep Dan and Honey out of each other's beds. Bill and Dan fight drunkenly but patch things up the next day. Celia is weak and worried as she leaves the farm, but that is the way she arrived. Honey never alters the coquettish mask that covers a considerable intelligence. Anna endures...
Proponents of the bill insist education is an issue vital enough to the national interest to merit the status and visibility that a Cabinet-level position implies. Because there is no one person who speaks for education--and consequently no one person to blame for national educational failures--supporters argue that a national spokesman for education is needed. Packer argues that elevating education to Cabinet status will help improve its status and visibility. "President Carter has said education has only been brought up twice in Cabinet meetings," he notes, adding that a new department would insure that educational programs...
...still the unwanted bureaucratic child, roaming up and down Independence and Constitution Avenues in search of a permanent roosting place. By the end of the month, Congress may send a law establishing the Department of Education to the White House. But Carter must do more than sign the bill, take his bows and verbally grant education a new lease on life. If the legislation's proponents think the battle to establish the department has been long and hard, they had better remember that their fight has only just begun