Word: chambers
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...party system. ((In the past)) the P.R.I. won presidential elections with two-thirds or four-fifths of the vote, all seats in the Chamber of Deputies, all seats in the Senate. Today we will enter a new era. ((We)) will have to reform our procedures of campaigning and organization, because we will face stiffer opposition. We'll have to live with a pluralistic Chamber of Deputies and Senate...
...think about the cost, which Pepper proposed to cover by lifting the $45,000 cap on income subject to the 1.45% Medicare payroll tax. Projections showed that this tax hike would cost $9 billion by 1993, a prospect that brought out thousands of small businesses and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in opposition. They were joined by the health-insurance industry, looking to protect its lucrative stake in private medigap insurance...
...wasn't speaking to the American Legion," Reagan says. "I wasn't speaking to the Chamber of Commerce. I was trying to explain America and what we are all about." In his speech to Moscow's cultural elite, he gave new insight into why he finds himself breaking out of his stereotype as an unvarnished foe of what he once called the "evil empire." "In the movie business, actors often get what we call typecast," he said. "The studios come to think of you as playing certain kinds of roles, and no matter how hard you try, you just...
...Neill recalls that at her first board meeting of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce the men in the room stood up when she entered, unaccustomed to having a woman join them. "I think they were more uncomfortable than I was," O'Neill says...
...river's repugnant color and stench contribute to Cocke County's prolonged economic doldrums by discouraging tourists and development. With an unemployment rate currently averaging 15%, Cocke Countians openly envy the relative prosperity in Haywood County, home of the paper mill (present unemployment average: 6%). Says Cocke County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Robert Seay, co-founder of the Dead Pigeon River Council, which wants to clean up the stink: "It's completely unfair for one county to use the river and have a ((low)) unemployment rate, and 50 miles downstream here we are with one of the highest unemployment...