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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Credit for stemming the Lions onslaught for most of the match goes to junior Phil Coogan, who twice look out charging Columbia forwards at the edge of the penalty box and found himself diving across the goal mouth on one-handed saves too many times to count...
...Senate, where Republican Majority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee was caught off guard. He had expected the House to sustain the veto, thus making a Senate vote unnecessary. After the House action, a shocked Baker made a hasty head count. He discovered that the Republicans did not even have 20 votes to block a veto override in the Senate...
...Cabinet in similar style during the week of discussion about the Reagan proposal. Asked to describe the Prime Minister's relationship to his Cabinet, a Begin supporter tersely replies: "Snow White and the seven dwarfs. They all owe their political lives to Begin. On the issues that count, the Cabinet reflects his views completely...
Sixteen hundred successful high school students checked into 16 unfamiliar brick buildings last weekend and thereby offered themselves up to an outrageous number of emotional slings and arrows. Between now and June, they can count on undergoing many, if not all, of a sequence of trials peculiar to that single nine-month period, in roughly chronological order...
...political bullet. The Democrats, in other words, were willing to push the bill over the top as long as the Republicans got the blame. That meant that Reagan needed support from about 100 of the 192 House Republicans. At week's end White House aides could count only 43 firmly committed and another 20 who seemed likely to join him. While the bill seemed safe in the Republican-controlled Senate, Reagan's friend, Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, observed, "This is the most difficult legislative challenge this President has had to face. It's tight as hell." Still...