Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Randall, John G. Carlisle and finally Tom Reed-appointed committee chairmen, dictated legislative priorities, and then determined the fate of their bills by the simple power of whom to recognize on the floor. By 1890, Reed was so contemptuous of the White House that he spurned presidential invitations to discuss his congressional plans. It was Reed who told a colleague in 1892: "I have been 15 years in Congress and I never saw a Speaker's decision overruled, and you will never live to see it either." The apex of House rule was reached under TIME'S first...
...French town of Belfort (pop. 65,000), Philosophy Teacher Nicole Mercier, 28, was asked by her high school students to discuss a widely circulated pamphlet entitled Apprenons à Faire l'Amour (Let's Learn to Make Love), which recommends that teenagers engage in sexual intercourse of all varieties. When she agreed, one pupil told her father, an army colonel, who cried out: "This is not sex education! This is an invitation to debauchery...
Another implications of Rich's protest is that, if Timothy S. Mayer '66 (who doesn't "think this sort of thing belongs in your newspaper") had been blessed with the foresight to omit the burlesque anecdotes from his repertoire--if he had been polite enough to discuss, say, his investments--Rich would have read her poems to the cager Signets, culture would have been disseminated, and poetry would have maintained its historical autonomy, its political immunity, its holy sanctity. In short, all would be well...
Following this pattern, President Bok said today he will meet with the Faculty Council next week to "discuss the matter from scratch...
...said that he has not yet considered the selection of Dunlop successor. He said he hopes to discuss the question with the Faculty Council next Wednesday...