Word: fates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evidence appear to be shaky, but it was certain that the committee could not legally revoke its confirmation. Apparently, at the worst, the committee could render a critical evaluation of Lance's highflying banking practices and thereby strengthen the resignation demands. Ultimately, the decision on Lance's fate still remained with the President. If the unlikely result of the hearings is to exonerate Lance completely, Jimmy Carter could joyously return to his earlier "I'm proud of you Bert" position and break out the grins. In fact, the committee's verdict on Lance is likely...
...They have waged the most intense lobbying I have ever seen against any bill," Rosenthal said this summer. Without an effective lobbying strategy of their own, consumerists might have been unable to prevent the protection agency bill from suffering the same fate as the common situs picketing legislation backed by organized labor and killed by Congress last spring...
...nickel and letter campaign is our way to get the attention--and the vote--of those wavering representatives who will decide the fate of the bill. Let big business spend millions on massive lobbying and full page, ads. Consumers will spend nickels to make their power felt," Nader argued...
...Bert's fate seems sealed, but how badly has his boss been hurt...
...autumn is not always heaven on earth. The season does induce a quickening of the blood and a heightening of human kind's sensual pleasures. Yet the very jubilant excesses that ensue often lead, at last, to the well-known post-Thanksgiving "holiday blues." In darker ways still, fate and tragedy have made some American Novembers seem more cruel than April...