Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John C. Culver (D-Iowa) agrees: "For most of us there was not a lot of dissatisfaction. We saw only a few issues requiring reform...
...football team, always under intense undergraduate scrutiny, improved steadily as '54 grew older. As freshmen, the team won only once, but with the arrival of the backfield of Dick Clasby and the senator from Iowa, the Crimson went six and two in their senior year. According to a Crimson editorial, the victory over Yale in The Game--the first Harvard win in the Yale Bowl since 1941--"cast a self-satisfied glow over the College...
...sophomore Republican Congressman from Iowa hog-tied Congress into passing two amendments to the Civil Service Reform Act, reducing Government employees by 29,000 and thereby bringing bureaucracy to a grinding halt. There should be more legislators like James Leach...
...England, Carter said, and the people there, barely out of this year's heavy snow, were scared that they would run short of heating oil next winter. He promised them that there would be enough, that the refineries were beginning to build up winter reserves. He went to Iowa, the President went on, and he found that diesel-oil shortages had developed, and concerned farmers urged that some fuel priority be given for planting, cultivating and harvesting their crops. He promised them that food production would not be jeopardized. And then he landed in California, continued Carter. That line...
...complicated that there is renewed interest in the possibility of a "science court" that might deal impartially with arcane controversy. It has grown so technical that some lawyers wonder whether ordinary electors can still adequately function as jurors. Says Attorney Gary Ahrens, a professor at the University of Iowa: "Practically nothing is commonsensical any more." Surely the spectacle of the public making decisions in semidarkness is an affront to common sense...