Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head off their filibuster, he scheduled a cloture vote for Monday, Sept. 26. (Under Senate rules, this would limit debate on the subject to one hour for each Senator and bar any new amendments.) But Abourezk spotted a loophole in Byrd's strategy: old amendments could still be called up for action. So Partner Metzenbaum put his staff to work all weekend writing 508 amendments, mostly technical, which he filed only hours before the Senators voted 77 to 17 for closure. Then he and Abourezk insisted that each amendment be voted on separately by roll call, a process that...
...Israeli perception is basically correct. Ever since his Clinton, Mass., call last March for a Palestinian "homeland," Jimmy Carter has become more and more convinced that the Palestinian issue is, as President Hafez Assad of Syria calls it, "the mother question" in the Middle East...
Defenders of the P.L.O. concede that while the organization has not yet modified the strident rhetoric of its 13-year-old charter, recent deliberations and decisions have become more moderate in tone. At its March meeting in Cairo, for instance, the Palestine National Council renewed its call for a state on any soil given up by Israel, but dropped a clause added to a similar resolution in 1974 that designated such a state as a base for further struggle against Israel. Time and again, P.L.O. leaders, including Yasser Arafat, have said they would settle for a Palestinian entity...
...suppose I must thank you for assigning me such star billing for my past role in the Housing office. While I have been accorded a certain notoriety as a result of the article by Roger Klein (September 28), I feel it only appropriate to call to your attention that the article credits me with power I never, until now, fully appreciated. The deans, the House masters, a bevy of senior administrators, and the members of the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life, all participated in developing the housing policies and monitoring my work., Indeed, I am flattered in the knowledge...
...attempted development of a special van to serve as a shuttle bus and the institution of a 24-hour call service at the Buildings and Grounds committee to help students with emergency mobility problems are recent improvements, Fielder said...