Word: committeee
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The amendment, originally sponsored by Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), was cleared by the Senate last Friday in a tumultuous debate which ended with a 65-31 vote for modified limitations on national arts funding. A House-Senate conference committee also passed a nearly identical version last week.
"[The questioning of B.U.'s accountability] obscures the fact that B.U. has signed a contract with a publicly elected school committee that candismiss B.U. at any time by a simple majority voteand to whom B.U. reports and consults at regularintervals," Silber said in an interview with TheCrimson yesterday.
Gorbachev used the close of the Central Committee plenum to purge one- quarter of the twelve voting members of the Politburo. He ousted three aging conservatives: Ukrainian party chief Vladimir Shcherbitsky, 71; former KGB chairman Viktor Chebrikov, 66; and agriculture specialist Viktor Nikonov, 60. Gorbachev's main nemesis, Yegor Ligachev...
Plainly Gorbachev is hamstrung by the narrow pool of party cadres he has to choose from and uncertainty over who is capable of putting his plans into action and managing them effectively. In fact, the purged Nikonov was appointed by Gorbachev with high hopes just three years ago. Moreover, Gorbachev...
Young based his ruling on the testimony of Dr. Jerome Lejeune, a French specialist in human genetics who testified that the seven embryos each have unique characteristics that distinguish them as human beings. Three other experts argued that the embryos possess only the potential for life. Their views echo those...