Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Backtracking from the barbs he had been aiming at Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd, Louisiana Democrat J. Bennett Johnston last week abandoned his five-month effort to replace the silver-haired West Virginian as the party's Senate floor chief. "The reason I'm withdrawing is that I don't think I have the votes," said Johnston. In January Byrd will reclaim the post of majority leader, which he lost when the G.O.P. took control of the Senate in 1981. Scorned for his untelegenic image, Byrd, 69, beat Johnston's challenge through old-fashioned cloakroom influence. As Johnston...
...prospective new majority leader, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is a master of parliamentary strategy. But even back when Democrats ran the Senate, before 1981, Byrd was not a leader who could mold the party's agenda or articulate it well in front of the cameras. For these reasons he faces a spirited challenge from J. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana, a bright and more telegenic moderate who feels that a majority leader should use his office as a "bully pulpit" for projecting Democratic values to the American people. A secret ballot will be held by the Democratic caucus next week...
...York Times, put forth a vague pastiche for "renewal" and "healing" that hinted at a retreat toward trade protectionism and vast new Government spending programs. He offered no clues on where the money might come from in a nation whose wealth is dangerously overspent now. Robert Byrd's genial and rambling pledges for a new beginning did nothing so much as remind people of the Senate Democratic leader's other, unhappy years...
Congressional leaders attending the White House briefing were Senate Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas, Senate Democratic leader Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, House Democratic leader Jim Wright of Texas and Rep. Dick Cheney of Wyoming, chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee...
...those who prefer games with more action, Electronic Art's One-on-One Basketball ($39.95) puts you in a head-to-head match between Larry Byrd and Julius Erving. You control one of the players and can match your skills against the computer or a friend. Although it won't improve your on-court dribbling and shooting, One-on-One can certainly keep your keyboard/mouse fingers in shape...