Word: comment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while they were having drinks at the bar of Washington's Sheraton-Carlton Hotel: "If we cannot prevail in conference, we will just have to call in a few chits and have the President veto the farm bill." Mount told TIME Correspondent Greg Wierzynski last week that the comment-which he does not remember making-was nothing more than an idle boast. Said he: "I apparently violated an old rule, never to discuss business...
That Miller's confirmation should have been delayed at all is a comment on the present anxious climate in Washington about anything concerning ethics. Once upon a very recent time, Miller's nomination would have been approved with only perfunctory debate, if that. But the Senate is still smarting from justified criticism of its overly hasty confirmation of Bert Lance as Budget boss, and business has been tarred by the international bribery practiced by Lockheed and other corporations. Thus when Miller first appeared before the Senate Banking Committee in late January, the Senators took seriously Proxmire...
Convention delegates plan to hold meetings in every House in the next two weeks to inform students about the convention's aims and to allow them to read and comment on the rough draft of the constitution...
...former CIA chief last night declined to comment on his appearance before the grand jury, and said he had "no opinion" as to whether national security considerations should bear on any possible prosecution of ITT executives for alleged perjury committed before the Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations...
...Asked to comment on the evening's activities, John Cosgrove '79, the other tournament organizer, said, "I'm at a loss for words--I let my wrists do the talking...