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...special subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee with power to subpoena White House documents, even the revival of the old question, "What did the President know and when did he know it?"-these all had the ring of Watergate. So did the repeated anticipation of things they "forgot" to say. The vow of Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, who will head the committee, evoked Watergate when he said: "We will pursue the truth wherever the truth may lead and let the chips fall where they may." Observed Tennessee Republican Howard Baker, one of the Watergate committee inquisitors: "I listened with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Burden of Billy | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...their quest to seize the White House, the crusading Republicans last week forgot their differences. Bush didn't "want to be nickel-and-dimed to death by details" lest he be forced to remember his principles; Henry Kissinger suddenly forgot about detente and linkage and all those things he so slyly sculpted while Secretary of State; even Bush-haters from Texas and North Carolina reserved their judgement until after the election...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: The Great Crusade | 7/22/1980 | See Source »

...Well, I know. Hell, I could have campaigned on the same things he campaigned on. The only difference was he forgot them between Plains and Washington. He's done virtually a 180° turnaround on almost everything he said he was going to do. Again, I just plead my record. In California, I kept trying to do the things I said I was going to. He had a record and, damn it, he was not a good Governor. Streamlining government, for example. He did not streamline government. He just bunched up a whole lot of departments under one title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: An Interview with Reagan | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

...have to keep calling parents. You have to keep trying to get homework done." She also believes in sentence diagraming and drill. "They can disregard it later on, but it only becomes part of you later on if you drill now." To discourage predictable student alibis like "I forgot my book" or "I lost my pencil," Becker spends her own money to keep an extra supply of paper and pencils on hand. She always has extra textbooks on her desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: ... And Some Who Carry On | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

Others recommend more advising for women, perhaps by installing advisers especially able to cope with women's issues. Dean Fox says he always asks each House master to include in his tutoring staff one such person. When pressed, though, Fox admits that this year he forgot to remind all of the masters to hire a women's adviser. Even when Fox does remember, few women student residents are aware of this service, primarily because women's advisers are not labeled as such. Fox says he does it this way because he prefers to "handle it (sexual harassment and women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unwanted Attentions | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

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