Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week that he was learning fast. He pleased Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd by frequent calls for consultation. He moved to isolate Texas Congressman Jack Brooks, the most vocal opponent of the President's Government reorganization plans, by inviting the members of Brooks' Government Operations Committee to discuss his proposals at the White House. (Carter is seeking the power granted most recent Presidents to reorganize the Government, subject to congressional veto of the whole package; Brooks wants congressional power to approve or reject each specific change...
...went out to Whacker's house the other day to discuss the implications--and the potential beneficial effects--of the forthcoming research with him. I was greeted at the gate to his palatial home by a dog which, somewhat surprisingly, spoke seven languages and, after he showed me to the front door, challenged me to a game of whist...
...have always said we are ready for a dialogue and we have indicated that we are willing to discuss any topic-with the exclusion of anything that might remotely suggest that we intend to tolerate or accept the conditions that contributed to the 1970 disaster here in Jordan. What happened between 1967 and 1970 is something no one here can tolerate in any form or permit to come back. It is not a question of Jordanians v. Palestinians, but a question of chaos and anarchy against law-and-order. We are not prepared to go through that experience again...
...normal length. Noting that Chapin's salary has just been raised from $225,000 a year to $245,840, Shareholder Harry Korba asked, "Why did you not have the decency to tell the board you would refuse the increase?" The dapper Chapin replied, "We are not going to discuss my cost of living." Another shareholder, Jerry Fylonenko, said that car buyers he had talked to variously described A.M.C.'s squat, glassy Pacer as "a fish bowl, a candy machine or a pregnant roller skate." Overall, though, the mood of the meeting was less one of anger than...
Last quarter your campus began to discuss a transcript change that would add to the transcript the number of students enrolled in the course and the median grade. On the Berkeley campus we too are discussing this proposal, referred to here as "relative transcripts." Contrary to one of your articles, this proposal is still under discussion and has not yet been implemented...