Word: guess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Half a dozen years ago, A.F.L.-C.I.O. Lobbyist Andrew Biemiller could guess correctly how some 300 Congressmen would vote on labor legislation; thus he and his assistants had to sound out and try to persuade only the remainder?about 135 Representatives. Today he has to touch base with at least 300 unpredictable Congressmen and never can be sure which way many of them will jump. Last year he was confident that the House would pass the common situs picketing bill, which would have allowed a single union to shut down an entire construction site, but it lost by twelve votes...
...Senators didn't even start showing up until 6. One didn't arrive until 6:20, and another didn't come at all. I asked myself, "God! Is this the way we respect the President?" I always thought when you were called, you came. I guess this President has a problem with the Senators. He never belonged to their club. So maybe they aren't as respectful as they might...
Northeastern is flexible. Ay, there's the rub. With the kind of versatility the Huskie runners show, it's anybody's guess where these people are going to pop up on Saturday. There's Mark Lech, the All-American runner who placed fourth in a middle-distance event in last year's Nationals. Lech can run well in any middle distance event and usually has--especially in the half-mile and the 600 yard run. Then there's the distance team of Flora-Bickford-Flora, which has been busy quashing Crimson hopes for a first place victory in the GBCs...
...There are not as many people here as I thought there'd be. I figured this place would be chock full of people, but I guess they all went to Cabot," a freshman who wished to remain anonymous said yesterday...
...than the studio-controlled screen heroes whose tradition they have inherited, they are in control of their destinies. That can only reinforce the power of their screen images. As Eastwood says, "I've been lucky enough to shape my own career. With a lot of help, of course. I guess I'm pretty self-sufficient, and I think that's appealing to the audience, because there are so many things to feel un-self-sufficient about in life...