Word: fractiously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though both provisions slid easily enough through the House, the Senate called for total deregulation of gas prices and rejected the oil tax, leaving it to a joint conference committee to thresh out a compromise. The committee has been stymied on the natural gas question and by the fractious and squabbling performance of its Senate members. As a result, it has not even got to the crude oil problem...
...battle was over?and to the curators went the spoils. The blue-and-white lectern emblem proclaiming NATIONAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE 1977, which had hung for three hectic, fractious, exhilarating days in Houston, last week was headed for Washington's Smithsonian Institution. It will repose with such other memorabilia as the star-spangled banner that flew over Fort McHenry and Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. And well it might. Over a weekend and a day, American women had reached some kind of watershed in their own history, and in that of the nation...
Britain's biggest automaker is still deep in trouble, but a new boss and a turn toward moderation by its fractious workers are strengthening its chances to stay in business. When the Labor government reluctantly agreed to take over nearly bankrupt British Leyland Motor Corp. in 1975, it publicly warned the maker of Jaguar, Morris, Triumph and Rover cars that it would not throw good money after bad. The price of government cash for new-car development and badly overdue plant modernization was to be an end to the constant bickering that has pitted unions against management and against...
...showdown centered on energy. Having got most of what he wanted from the House, the President had seen his program all but cut to pieces by a fractious Senate. But Jimmy Carter finally won a major victory there last week when Senate liberals pushed through approval of a "use" tax, which would heavily penalize certain utilities and large firms that refused to shift from natural gas and oil to coal. The 51-to-37 vote was a defeat for Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long (see following story), who has emerged as a pivotal figure in the battle...
Outfielder Lou Piniella on the fractious season: "I'm happy it's over. I don't think this club can take another year, another two weeks, an-other week of all this. You don't have to be one big happy family to concentrate on playing ball. But if everything isn't going to be tranquil, next year we'll be a good fourth-place club...