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...margin, the Senate rejected Sen. Jake Garn's (R-Utah) proposal to couple an additional 39-month ratification period with an opportunity for ratifying states to cancel their vote...
...what the memo implies was an attempt to induce Petrillo to drop the case, Griffin next offered him a lower paying job in the GSA's Federal Supply Service. Petrillo took it but refused to cancel his complaint. Thereafter, the harassment of Petrillo increased. "Not a single piece of paper crossed my desk for eight months," he says. Finally, he asked to be transferred to a new job, even though his salary would be cut by $5,000. But when he was told that he would have to pay his own moving expenses, he decided not to take...
...Cancel all reservations for airline flights, select a reliable four-engine armchair and take off: "The Gremlin's Castle was trembling in an incipient stall ... Almost directly ahead stood the Taj Mahal ... We were obviously going to knock it down ... Desperate in the seconds remaining, I made a wild decision. I doubted if anyone had ever tried it in a C87 ... 'Hogarty!' I yelled. 'Give me full flaps...
...quarterback dressing up like a referee--that is the newest wrinkle in the multi-flex. Every time Harvard is about to get called for illegal motion the dressed-up quarterback simply calls a penalty on the defense and the two infractions cancel each other...
...Senate Banking Committee staff is drafting such a Tax-based Incomes Policy (TIP) bill, which Chairman William Proxmire plans to introduce late this year or early next. Meanwhile, some Treasury and Internal Revenue Service staffers were ordered to cancel summer vacations and study what kind of TIP plan the Carter Administration might propose. Explains Lyle Gramley, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers: "TIP is becoming more attractive simply because the other alternatives aren't much better or they're not working...