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...groups of powerful leaders gather on opposite sides of the globe this week, both will know the real issue facing them: Must the entire non-Communist world go through a repetition of the oil-fired recession of 1974-75? The answer will not be clear even when the final gavel ends the OPEC meeting in Geneva and the economic summit in Tokyo. But the prospects are cheerless: at best, a slowdown in global growth, accompanied by more inflation; at worst, an outright recession?also accompanied by more inflation. Already, the downturn-that-might-be has picked up a name. Washington...
...three gubernatorial appointees to the Commonwealth's new commission, Vorenberg is responsible for running its bi-weekly meetings and wielding the gavel at all commission inquiries. "We have the whole field of conflict of interest, bribery and corruption in our jurisdiction," Vorenberg notes. "We intend to fulfill our intended role, for the history of this legislation makes it clear that neither the public nor the legislature would find it acceptable if we became merely a receptacle for files...
...neither the commercial networks nor public broadcasters have agreed to pick up the programs once they start. Some 200 cable-TV stations, however, have signed up to make gavel-to-gavel coverage of the House available to their subscribers. Given the chamber's arcane procedures and routine business, not even Tip O'Neill expects to rival Mork as a TV personality, and the ratings of the soaps will not be threatened by the daily travails and dramas in the Big House on the Hill...
Soon after that, the delegates walked across Pennsylvania Avenue to Blair House and sat down to business. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance served as chairman of the opening sessions. At week's end he left for South Africa, turning over the gavel to Ambassador Alfred ("Roy") Atherton, the President's special emissary in the Middle East. The three partners quickly reached agreement on a mundane but vital procedural issue: instead of breaking up into working groups, each delegation in its entirety would participate in all bilateral or trilateral meetings...
Many Faculty members and administrators are meticulously dressed and groomed. Even some of the students are wearing coats and ties or expensive-looking dresses. An air of solemnity hangs over the room as Dean Rosovsky bangs his gavel and calls the meeting to order. Like a fastidious schoolmarm, he gives his usual speech on the necessity of punctuality...