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...public relations firm that has "apparently been involved in the funneling of money to secret Swiss bank accounts" used in aiding the Contra rebels, according to Rep. Dante B. Fascell (D-Fla.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee...
...could be talking about that," replied Lawton Chiles (D-Fla.), ranking Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee...
...temperature of the blood will be monitored in orbit by Representative William Nelson (D-Fla.), whose district includes the Cape Canaveral launch site...
...principle, the proposed "uncapping" of retirement age appears to deserve all the legislative momentum it has gathered in recent months. After all, as advocate for the elderly Rep. Claude Pepper (D-Fla.) has pointed out time and time again, discrimination on the basis of age is as indefensible as sexism or racism. Qualifications for a job should obviously be based on skill, not some arbitrary chronological distinction...
Last December in the lame duck session, Congress tabled a bill that would have eliminated the mandatory retirement age, currently set at 70. The two sponsors of the bill, Sen. John Heinz (R-Penn.), and Rep. Claude Pepper (D-Fla.), are expected to re-introduce the bill this spring. Universities, particularly Harvard, are strongly opposed to the bill and have been successful in securing a conditional amendment exempting universities from the law for 15 years after the bill's passage. Crimson reporter Lavea Brachman interviewed Henry Rosovsky, dean of the Faculty, last week and conducted a roundtable discussion with Morton...