Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Treasury officially favors putting Miss Liberty on the coin, but even in the department there is division. Treasurer Azie Morton champions a "real woman," and Under Secretary Bette Anderson touts Miss Liberty. The Congressional Women's Caucus wants Anthony. Pro-Anthony bills have been introduced in the Senate and the House. Whoever is on its face, the new coin will have advantages: it will be easy to use in vending machines, and will save the Government $4.5 million a year because it will not wear out for 15 years, vs. 18 months for dollar bills, which will remain...
Members of the student Third World Caucus will conduct an "intensive lobbying effort" before the faculty meeting, Michelle D. Holmes '77, first-year medical student and Third World Caucus member, said last week...
...Third World Caucus has written a 30-page report against dissolution of the special subcommittee, one of five admissions subcommittees. The group has distributed the report to faculty and administrators, and will conduct an informal seminar on the proposal with faculty members today...
...Africa themselves call for corporate withdrawal, I think it is fair to say that we should respect their perceptions. When the United Nations General Assembly, the World Council of Churches, the NAACP, the Pan-Africanist Congress, the National Congress of South Africa, the Black Consciousness movement, the Congressional Black Caucus, the AFL-CIO and so many, many others say "withdraw," then I wonder: upon what do we base our supposedly "moral" decision to stay...
Even as the partying proceeded, a 14-man caucus of the committee's natural gas conferees was struggling furiously to come up with a deal. After dining on takeout orders of pizza and fried chicken, the conferees emerged bleary-eyed at 2:30 a.m. from the conference room of the House Administration Committee and gave waiting reporters the news: this time, after many false alarms, a gas solution was really at hand. The key features: 1) the phased decontrol of domestically produced newly discovered natural gas, with the price ceiling rising by about 10% annually and being eliminated altogether...