Word: caucusing
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...largely organizational. We elected officers, and voted to change meeting times so that the Radcliffe feminist group's meeting time wouldn't conflict with ours--so gay women on campus could attend both groups. We listened to a short presentation by a representative of the Cambridge Gay Political Caucus, who talked about Saundra Graham's campaign for state rep from Cambridge. We broke up for cider and cookies, and I was intimidated by the fact that everyone but me seemed to know everyone else, so I left...
...since 1975 and in some months this year have captured 20% of the U.S. market. Combined with lackluster domestic demand, that foreign invasion has caused shutdowns of old mills, forcing more than 60,000 workers out of jobs in the past year. Steel executives, union men and a new caucus of Congressmen from steel-producing areas have brought heavy pressure on the Carter Administration to do something. The President's first response was to invite steelmen to file complaints against the "dumping" of foreign metal-that is, selling it below cost. The trouble is that though dumping violates both...
Last week the Administration seemed ready to try a new tack and push for a six-point program of aid to the domestic industry. Treasury Under Secretary Anthony Solomon briefed industry executives and members of the congressional steel caucus on the plan that he will present to the President this week, and the main outlines-though not all the details -promptly leaked...
Still, the declawed bill is backed by the congressional Black Caucus and myriad civil rights and women's organizations as well as Big Labor, all of which expect it to pass next year. For all its blandness, however, the measure is likely to run into stiff opposition from the increasingly powerful congressional business lobby. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's chief economist, Jack Carlson, has already asserted that the 4% goal could not be reached without boosting inflation to an annual rate of 10% or more...
This call, echoed by U.S. groups such as the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus, becomes even more urgent in light of South Africa's latest efforts to insure that U.S. corporations continue to provide support for the apartheid regime: last Friday, the South African government invoked powers that enable it to order U.S. owned plants in South Africa to provide strategic materials for the regime, or alternately face the seizure of their goods...