Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Althena had an advantage over us." Sissy Farenthold. Chair of the Woman's National Political Caucus (NWPC), sucked the convention members into her words like a pagan priestess mesmerizing a pack of willing iconoclasts. "She sprang full grown from the forehead of Zeus. Our movement is not ordained from on high and we hardly sprang full-grown. Our growth will come with painstaking effort...
...jobs bill was back in the House for a vote to override the veto-the most important test of strength yet between Ford and the congressional Democrats. "If we Democrats can't win on this crucial vote," House Majority Leader Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill told his party caucus, "then we can't win on any vote." To Ford, the issue was whether the Democrats would open an inflationary floodgate: more and more spending for more and more jobs...
...group of first year medical students and members of the Third World Caucus voiced opposition to some of the review committee's recommendations...
Woodrow A. Myers, a member of the Third World Caucus, said last night that his group also objects to the provision in the report that calls for the number of minority students admitted to remain at or rise above the 20 per cent in this year's freshman class. He called the group's objection basically "procedural...
...applauded, though a number of panelists cautioned that this has created a dispersal of power and a leadership vacuum that could work to the advantage of a strong President. To prevent this, panelists argued, either the party leaders in both chambers must act more forcefully or the unwieldy party caucus must assert itself...