Word: gavelling
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General Hospital and Family Feud had better get ready for some heavy competition, because the state House of Representatives will move onto daytime television by January with live, "gavel-to-gavel" broadcasts from the floor...
...yesterday--the usual starting time for the Cambridge City Council meetings scheduled weekly at 5 p.m. the council chamber was empty Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci was not there to top his ceremonial gavel to call the session to order and ask all assembled to pledge allegiance to the flag. A blanker at snow had stopped or at least slowed the wheels of the city's government...
...rent control hearing process is held, and the often months-long wait that preceded it, landlords' and tenants' tempers sometimes grow short by the time they face the board members. To end a repetitious argument or enforce quiet among the audience. Chairman Acheson Callaghan picks up his gavel and taps it with the authority of an annoyed judge. "It's not a court," says one resident familiar with the board's procedures. "But there's a lot on the line so already you're uncomfortable as a tenant...
...competition. "To some degree it has led to a distortion of what we do. We cannot help being conscious of our circulation, and occasionally we are almost solely conscious of our circulation. There would be no discussion--none what-soever--of whether we continued to cover the conventions gavel-to-gavel if the number of viewers, that is, our circulation, was high or as high as it used...
Leonard also criticized gavel-to-gavel coverage of conventions, which CBS decided last year to discontinue: "History, time, and pride in exercising our ability as reporters resulted many years ago in the enormous coverage that we give the conventions. The conventions as a political instrumentality have changed over the years, but we have not caught up with that change... We still continue to make an effort at the conventions that I do not believe is warranted, and I don't think that the public, which kind of turns its back on it, feels it's warranted either...