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Fifield said that it was "likely" that Bell was being considered for "some state appointment," but she said she couldn't confirm or deny whether he was being considered for a cabinet post...
Given those attitudes, Rockefeller is expected to have less trouble winning confirmation than was previously thought. Not more than a dozen committee members are likely to vote against him when hearings conclude in early December. Last week the Senate Rules Committee voted unanimously to confirm him, and an Associated Press poll indicated that only five Senators plan to vote against him on the floor, with 16 undecided. Barring the unforeseen, Rocky should receive the nicest Christmas present of his life...
DuPont acknowledges that considerable research must still be done to confirm these preliminary findings and determine if marijuana is, in fact, harmful. But until the questions raised in the report are answered, he urges abstinence...
...best known to them, would like to cut my throat," he says. His problems illustrate the difficulties involved when the Government appoints to a regulatory agency a man from the industry that is regulated. Given the post-Watergate climate, some Senate aides think that the Senate will refuse to confirm Gibson's nomination-if it ever gets there...
...this image with even a minimal knowledge of the realities of farmworker life. Our own very different experiences (one of us spent many years in a community regularly employing migrant labor and the other worked for two years as a legal services attorney among farmworkers in Delano, California) only confirm what has been said and observed by countless others who have researched the farmworker problem. The farm laborer's existence has been and continued to be characterized by poverty, insecurity, injury and illness, as well as systematic resistance to attempts to better conditions through unionization...