Word: breakdown
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Vice Presidents have long hesitated to stand in for disabled Presidents. In 1881 the country was leaderless for the 80 days that Garfield lay dying. During Wilson's breakdown, 28 bills became law by default of any presidential action. Though a "committee" of Cabinet and White House staff members car ried on after Eisenhower's heart attack, Vice President Nixon warned that it might have failed "had there been a serious international crisis requiring presidential decisions...
...regards arms supplies, an official breakdown of a cross-section of arms taken from the Vietcong shows that ..."Only one in fifty came from the Communist bloc." (Baltimore Sun, Oct. 14, 1963.) Similarly, the Christian Science Monitor reported on Jan. 7, 1963, that "arms supplied to the Vietcong from outside the country have been negligible." The New York Times made a similar statement on Feb. 16, 1964: 'The bombing of North Vietnam could not halt the flow of supplies to the Viet Cong, particularly since most of their weapons are captured from the South Vietnamese Army...
Signs. This might indicate that the President will have his own absolute way with the 89th Congress. But Congress traditionally has a way of displaying a mind of its own, no matter what its party breakdown. And last week there were a couple of signs that the 89th may not be too different...
Following a breakdown in negotiations between the students and the Administration, Boston University's Ad Hoc Committee for University Reform has called for a boycott of the school book store beginning February...
...bluegrass sound after they go to college and move to the city. The three young Greenbriar Boys are lively, technically superb, sometimes jazzy and even in tune as they range from the old-timey Take a Whiff on Me, otherwise known as the Cocaine Blues, to A Minor Breakdown, an original by the Greenbriar banjoist...