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...disagreement over interest payments, but Judge Weinstein refused to delay the case. Less than three hours later he was able to tell the veterans' lawyers: "The case is over if you take 180." They did. Some 50 lawyers and corporate officials then crammed into Weinstein's chamber to crack bottles of champagne and celebrate the unprecedented settlement...
...last week councilors had also put off discussion of controversial legislation since both Councilor David E. Sullivan and Councilor Walter J. Sullivan were absent from the chamber on vacation...
...heart of the visit came on Friday and Saturday. Reagan talked formally with Chinese leaders for some seven hours over the two days, most of that time around a conference table in a chamber of the Great Hall of the People. At Friday's sessions more than a dozen officials from each country faced each other across an expanse of green felt. Feisty, hard-line Hu Yaobang hectored Reagan about supposed American misapprehensions of Chinese foreign policy. The chemistry between the two, admitted one U.S. official "was not all that terrific." Nevertheless, Reagan was handing out invitations to visit...
Last week the moment of decision arrived. The clock in Brasilia's fetid, smoke-filled Chamber of Deputies nudged 2:15 a.m. on Thursday as spectators squirmed restlessly after 17 hours of rasping debate. Then the result of the voting was announced: the opposition had failed to get the two-thirds majority necessary for the amendment to pass. Figueiredo was able to sway the vote in his party's favor by engaging in some personal last-minute lobbying. He countered with a compromise amendment that would initiate direct elections not next year but as early...
Richard Halverson, 68, chaplain of the U.S. Senate, on "word merchants" in the chamber: "Help them to appreciate the power of words... to honor, to disparage; to encourage, to disappoint; to comfort, to embarrass; to edify, to offend; to strengthen, to weaken; to motivate, to immobilize; to give hope, to frustrate; to purify, to pollute; to build, to destroy...