Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...along, the Administration and Senate Democratic leaders were confident that they had a firm majority of votes for passage of the bill. But they were not certain they could enlist the 60 votes needed to cut off the filibuster led by Republican Senators Richard Lugar of Indiana and Orrin Hatch of Utah. Lugar argued that owners of small businesses are "overtaxed and overregulated" and had a legitimate fear of a "further extension of union organizing power and of a strengthened National Labor Relations Board." He had helped prepare 1,200 amendments that could have come up for votes...
...request for Israel's position on whether after a five-year transition period it would be prepared to negotiate a final settlement for the area. Begin was opposing two camps led by Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, both of whom favor a firm commitment. Instead, the Premier was said to support a proposal by Chaim Landau, Minister Without Portfolio and an old friend, that Israel promise only to "reconsider" the situation...
Some 7,000 students, nearly 3,000 of them girls, compete on teams with a firm no-cut policy. Everyone gets a chance to play. Teams are fielded according to skill level, and a struggle between junior varsity or C-squad basketball teams is as enthusiastically contested as a varsity clash. Cedar Rapids' schoolgirl athletes compete in nine sports, guided by 144 coaches. Access to training equipment is equal too. The result has been unparalleled athletic success. In the past eight years, Cedar Rapids boys and girls teams have finished among the state's top three 68 times, winning...
...guide was quite firm. "Please don't annoy her too much," he said as we approached a blue-footed booby that had decided to nest directly in our path. But even the guide, a serious young Australian biologist named Bob Close, could not resist the temptation, along with the rest of us, to poke a camera right in the face of the comic bird with the garishly colored webbed feet. The booby blithely continued to sit on her two eggs while the cameras clicked away. Said Close: "You would think that after having hundreds of tourists parade by them...
...American Airlines; Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Jr. '54, chairman of Back-Bay-Orient Enterprises and a prominent figure in American-Korean trade relations; Thornton F. Bradshaw '40, president of Atlantic Richfield, one of the nation's largest oil companies; Rilbert D. Storey '58, a partner in the Ohio law firm of Burke, Haber and Berick; and Frank Stanton, former president of the Columbia Broadcasting System...