Word: conferring
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...together for most of the past 15 years: as high economic officials of the Nixon Administration; then as top executives of Bechtel, the worldwide construction firm; and currently as the most powerful members of Ronald Reagan's Cabinet. They breakfast together once a week, alternating as hosts, and confer frequently by telephone. When Shultz was asked last week about their reported disputes, he replied, "That's nonsense...
Russell asked the City Manager to confer with the Cambridge Housing Authority to see if that municipal office has the $1.4 million to buy the Concord Ave. property...
Britain, which permits its airlines to confer on prices, contended that the matter was beyond the reach of American law. Since August, the British have refused to approve proposed lower transatlantic winter fares, claiming the move could invite further U.S. antitrust actions...
...presumably think so, or Gromyko would not have taken the opportunity last week to size up the President in person. Reagan's aides, however, do not expect to hear anything more of a substantive nature from Moscow until after the voting. Gromyko, they believe, will need time to confer with his colleagues in the Soviet leadership on what to do next, and the Administration will also have to do some retooling of the position to take if and when formal negotiations resume. Soviet officials agree on the timing of any exchanges, but for a different reason. Says one Soviet...
...Supreme Court found no federal constitutional requirement for equal funding of school districts within a state. But the same year, the New Jersey Supreme Court interpreted its state constistution to mandate equal funding for local school districts. The New Jersey requirement will stand. A state is free to confer greater rights under its own constitution than the Supreme Court finds in the federal Constitution...