Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republican. But that meant reducing the size of somebody else's committee, a treacherous undertaking amid a group that so jealously guards its prerogatives. But Long had a friend in Mississippi's John Stennis, chairman of the Armed Services Committee. Sure, said Stennis. He was willing to drop a couple of members. "It's a small reduction," he acknowledged. Long then approached Byrd, who convened a hasty meeting of the Steering Committee. Boren landed a place on Finance as well as a debt to Long that will not be easy to repay...
...Donald Davis, 36, a former employee of the Michigan state police who was co-piloting the lumbering old DC-6. "I don't know what all the activity is about. We were headed for Costa Rica from Florida when our navigation went out. We were down to our last drop of fuel when we landed...
...could be the beginning of a new era for the performing arts at Harvard, and a model for the teaching of drama at every school in this country. We risk little--a few productions a year in the Loeb--and stand to gain a whole lot. Let's drop our suspicions and embrace the possibilities...
...well get to see a bit more of senior Faculty members in tutorials if the Faculty passes the tutorial reform proposals approved by the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) last week. Under the proposals, if senior Faculty don't actually teach tutorials, they are at least supposed to drop by for a visit every once in a while...
...Faculty member said last week the extra teaching load required by the proposals could, in fact, cause some Faculty members to drop undergraduate lecture courses...