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Word: conventioneers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alternative papers have become so respectable that some of their editors are beginning to feel uneasy. Says Mike Lene-han, 30, associate editor of the Chicago Reader: "As we've become more professional, we don't stoop so low-but we don't soar as often either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Notes from the Underground | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

We've got a message and we want to send it." So proclaimed Republican Eugene Lamkin, majority leader of the Indiana house of representatives, last week as his colleagues voted to join the legislatures of 28 other states in calling for a constitutional convention to adopt an amendment requiring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Turtle Politics | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

Democratic congressional leaders, meanwhile, insist that they are sympathetic to demands for a balanced budget but do not want to risk the potential chaos of a convention or the straitjacket that an amendment could place on economic policy. These legislators argue that they should take no action until after full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Turtle Politics | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

A "Europa Abend" or European Evening was the novel finale for the national convention of West Germany's Christian Democratic Union in Kiel. First the politicians routinely re-elected Helmut Kohl party chairman, despite grumbles that Kohl will be no match for Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 9, 1979 | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

Call it a bran-new genre of film making or the wheat germ of an idea by innovative Director Robert Altman. Filming in St. Petersburg Beach, Fla., is Altman's Health, all about a leadership power struggle at a national health-food promotion convention between a vigorous virgin of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 2, 1979 | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

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