Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that proposal was essentially an exercise in wishful thinking on Heath's part. It quickly became clear that the Liberals had no intention of trading in their first real surge of popularity in half a century for the tag-end of a coalition with the Tories. After a caucus of Liberal M.P.s, Thorpe dispatched a polite thanks-but-no-thanks letter to the Prime Minister...
...candidates were running for Congress from Ohio's 23rd district, near Cleveland. In Winnetka, a suburb of Chicago, town meetings that were once sparsely attended are now overflowing with people. "The cliche is that good government begins at home," says Tom Donohue, chairman of the Winnetka nonpartisan caucus committee. "I think people are beginning to realize that that is true...
...distributed through supermarkets for three days during each of the next four weeks, and the S.L.A. suggested that the program be supervised by several groups, including the Black Panthers, Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers, the American Indian Movement (AIM), the National Welfare Rights Organization and the Black Teachers Caucus...
...January 1973, the new majority leader was responsible for the adoption of a party reform weakening the traditional seniority system that automatically kept committee chairmen in power year after year. Now the chairmen must be approved at the start of every Congress by a vote of the entire Democratic caucus...
Throughout much of the summer, the nation's attention shifted from courtroom to caucus room as the familiar Watergate names turned into unforgettable images on America's television screens. This was television's greatest contribution yet to public understanding of a historic and confusing event ?and the Watergate intrigue in all its ramifications was surely one of the most complex and convoluted stories in American political history. More than all of the news accounts, more than the proceedings in Judge Sirica's courtroom, the Senate Watergate hearings dramatized the issues and personalities, permitting millions of Americans to make...