Word: franks
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Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott (R-Pa.) lambasted the Washington-based citizens lobby Common Cause late last month for its attempt to stop U.S. Senators from distributing newsletters and other mass mailings postage-free through the use of the mailing "frank," or signature placed on a letter to indicate free postage...
Scott joined Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.), three other Democrats and two Republican colleagues in securing passage of a resolution addressed to the Common Cause campaign against newsletters and the mailing frank. The resolution, S. Res. 411, asserts, in part, that dissemination of newsletters about federal legislation is "part of the official business of a Senator under the Constitution...
...zooming to the forefront with a tough-minded style that stresses product features. The agency and its principals-Ed McCabe and Marvin Sloves-pitch for Volvo and have brought the brand name to the poultry business with fabulously successful ads for Perdue chickens. They feature a squeaky-voiced Frank Perdue telling consumers with mock solemnity that it "takes a tough man to make a tender chicken" and insisting that his birds are more pampered than the people who eat them...
...Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, headed by Idaho Democrat Frank Church, voted last week to turn over to the Justice Department information about Lockheed Aircraft Corp.'s overseas payoffs, to be forwarded to countries involved in the scandals. The Justice Department itself signed agreements with The Netherlands and Italy providing for an exchange of findings about bribegivers and -takers. They are similar to an agreement signed the previous week with Japan, where Lockheed has admitted payoffs totaling $12.5 million...
...walkout began early April 1, after the Teamsters' old contract expired. Union President Frank Fitzsimmons, who dearly wants to be re-elected in June, had been pushed by the rank-and-file to hold out for stiff terms. Under the last contract, the Teamsters received a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) that was "capped" at a maximum of 11? per hour in any year. That limitation, the union reckoned, cost its members a total of 53? in their hourly wages, which averaged $7.18 to $7.33 when the contract ran out. Hence among the union's final demands...