Word: chokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks ago, Helms was unable to choke off a similar filibuster against his bill to ban abortion. The school prayer legislation, like the abortion measure, was attached to a bill raising the national debt ceiling (from $1.143 trillion to $1.29 trillion). But before the Senate could vote on school prayer, Helms and his supporters needed to muster 60 votes to invoke cloture and shut off the talkathon against the bill spearheaded by Republican Lowell Weicker of Connecticut...
...impatient waiting while the Administration and Congress focused on economic matters, the New Right and its allies at last had a fighting chance to pass the most controversial item on their social agenda: legislation to ban abortion. But after three futile attempts to muster the votes necessary to choke off a liberal filibuster, the most conservative Senate in more than a generation abandoned the effort and voted 47 to 46 last week to table the issue...
First, administrators disclosed they were considering holding a student referendum on whether to choke off the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) by eliminating funds for the vocal women's interest group. Then word got out that Harvard had quietly withdrawn funding for the Women's Clearinghouse, a counseling and referral service for female undergraduates. And meanwhile, amid all the retrenchment, the major women's issue of recent months got no attention whatsoever. University Hall still refuses to say how, if at all, it intends to deal with the Faculty members who reportedly harass dozens of undergraduate women each year...
...Wenglowski, the eventual outcome could be, if anything, worse than the stagnation scenario. Interest rates would stay down temporarily, and production might grow rapidly and unemployment drop for a while. But then inflation would reignite, and sooner or later the Federal Reserve would have to crack down again to choke off the miniboom. That scenario would in effect mark a return to the dismal and overlapping inflation-recession cycles...
...York Republican Barber Conable sums up the conflicting pressures. On one hand, legislators know that unless they raise taxes enough to give some real hope that budget deficits can be kept from spiraling out of control, interest rates are likely to stay high and choke off a recovery from the lingering recession. Says Conable: "Wall Street is watching us very closely to see if we are serious or just playing games." But when the House takes up its version of the Dole bill, it is certain to be pounced upon by lobbyists for an extraordinary array of powerful interests: doctors...