Word: dealt
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...most part, Cambridge residents have dealt with Harvard on an issue-by-issue basis. The city is zoned for some commercial businesses, but whatever the zoning regulations are in the city, all academic institutions are not required to conform to the rules (courtesy of the 1975 state Dover Amendment). The last time Cambridge successfully confronted Harvard was in 1975, when Graham led her infamous crusade to halt construction of the Kennedy Library complex on the MBTA yards. City Councilor David Clem recalls this instance as the first time Harvard really lost a fight, but the issue was more complicated...
Following Schleyer's kidnaping, Schmidt had set up two crisis staffs that met frequently in marathon sessions, at the heavily guarded Chancellery in Bonn. Elected officials and political leaders spent countless hours there in conferences, and the normal functions of the government slowed discernibly. The Bundestag dealt with only the most pressing business; the Chancellor canceled a state visit to Poland and a number of speaking engagements across the country...
Just after being introduced, the plan ran into opposition. The opposition grew with time. First, the chairmen of committees that were to be abolished, such as Small Business and Veterans Affairs, protested the loss of a voice in the Senate; leaders of interest groups that dealt with these committees echoed this complaint. Second, there was opposition to some of the jurisdictional changes, such as transferring international economic policy from Foreign Relations to Banking. Third, there were technical questions about whether the Senate could unilaterally abolish joint committees. Fourth, there was opposition to what some senators, including Barry Goldwater (R.-Ariz...
...elements of the Panama Canal treaties had become a crucial question in Carter's struggle to sell the pacts to the Senate and a still skeptical U.S. public. By week's end, with the aid of a three-paragraph "statement of understanding," Carter seemed to have dealt deftly with the dispute - and perhaps even improved the embattled treaties' prospects for eventual Senate passage...
...known to his cell members only by a code name, and he always passed instructions to them through a deputy. He got his own orders through "coordinators" who dealt with the central committee. When a cell-level operative meets his central committee bosses, spotlights and Halloween masks may be used to confuse identification. Recalls José: "I remember times where members I know would stand together at rallies or meetings and not know each other...