Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Roll-call buzzers sounded repeatedly in both chambers. Aides gathered in corridors and hallways for hurried conferences with then-bosses. Pages scurried about, notifying Senators and Representatives of phone calls from powerful lobbyists, White House aides and even the President. Periodically, Democratic or Republican leaders rushed frantically onto the House and Senate floors to keep wavering supporters in line on key votes...
...strategy had to be approved first by the Rules Committee. After a night of debate, the committee was deadlocked, 8 to 8. O'Neill and Administration strategists then focused their efforts on California Democrat B.F. Sisk, who had voted against the merged bill. Despite a 15-min. call from Jimmy Carter, Sisk refused to change his vote...
...wheeler-dealers, from Macy's and Neiman-Marcus, Fiat and Hitachi. Yet Canton is no showcase. The Cantonese do not radiate the physical vitality of most urban Chinese; many are poorly clothed. There are more people milling aimlessly and noisily around than in other Chinese cities. The Pekingese call the Cantonese "shrike-voiced barbarians...
...Canton, there is little sense of the tensions and frictions so close to the surface of American, European or other Asian cities. One explanation is that the citizenry is governed by a public ethic that was not evident before the 1949 Revolution, or Liberation, as the Chinese prefer to call it. If, for example, a young person comes home with a wristwatch or a transistor radio that has obviously been stolen or otherwise illicitly acquired, he must not only surrender it; he must also undergo a somewhat Orwellian regimen of "self-criticism...
...mirrors have been exposed to what astronomers call "first light," and the new instrument should be operational by early next year. For astronomers, the heavens can hardly wait. Because of MMT'S high and dry desert perch, it should be highly effective in exploring the skies in the largely neglected infra-red portion of the spectrum. These longer wave lengths are especially useful for studying such cosmological mysteries as the birth of stars and the violence in the heart of distant galaxies and quasars that may well be caused by those baffling black holes...