Word: birches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President wanted to get his case on record before the delegates convene in New York, although there was no chance he would appear by then before the subcommittee chaired by Indiana's Birch Bayh...
...Committee with power to subpoena White House documents, even the revival of the old question, "What did the President know and when did he know it?"-these all had the ring of Watergate. So did the repeated anticipation of things they "forgot" to say. The vow of Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, who will head the committee, evoked Watergate when he said: "We will pursue the truth wherever the truth may lead and let the chips fall where they may." Observed Tennessee Republican Howard Baker, one of the Watergate committee inquisitors: "I listened with an eerie feeling. Bayh said what...
...about 11 million companies in the U.S. classified as small. Of these, 3.4 million do $5 million or less in business each year and employ fewer than 100 workers. Nonetheless, bantam businesses contribute a surprising 43% to the gross national product. Between 1969 and 1976, according to David Birch, urban studies professor at M.I.T., two-thirds of the economy's new jobs came from firms with 20 or fewer employees. At least half of the nation's private work force is in some way dependent on small business. General Motors, for example, has 55,000 small suppliers. "This...
...source said subcommittee members Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), who appears to favor registration, and Sen. Harrison Schmidt (R-N.J.), against registration, are wavering...
...punk rockabilly, the Cramps. The Cramps are the real thing: not hip, because they've lived through too many passing fads. They originally tried to ply their wares in the midwest, about five years ago, but made about as much headway as Abbie Hoffman would at a John Birch convention. Now the band is a mainstay of the New York scene, having made the big move several years ago. The New York press generally slag the band off as a low-budget model of the Tubes or as genetically defected punks, but New York fans know a good thing when...