Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first-term Democrats James Abourezk of South Dakota and Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio turned the chamber into a marathon slumber party that kept the Senators up until dawn the first day, late the following night, and threatened to continue this week. Their stated objective: to block any move to lift the federal ceiling on the price of natural gas sold interstate. The ordeal was fresh evidence that an independent and unpredictable Senate is defying its own leadership and the White House. The week also marked the emergence of Byrd as one of Carter's closest and most important political...
...House, but the gas industry's friends in the Senate wanted to abolish controls altogether, which would leave the price to be set by free-market forces. Byrd plumped for Carter's bill. He sensed, however, that he would lose in the Senate, which would vote to lift price ceilings. Nonetheless, he figured that any decontrol measure would later be undone by the House when the time came for a compromise on a final version of the energy bill. In the end, reasoned Byrd, Carter would...
...compliance with a federal regulation put into effect last June, which stipulates that recipients of federal financial aid make all their programs accessible to the handicapped, ramps for the disabled at Robinson and Boylston Halls and a porch lift in Emerson Hall will be ready for use next week, the assistant director for facilities said yesterday...
...half years since the last American troops left Vietnam, the American government's attitude toward Vietnam has progressed from intransigent hostility to grudging near-acceptance. The State Department announced last May it would drop its opposition to Vietnam's application to the United Nations, and promised to lift a trade embargo as soon as diplomatic relations are established; this produced visible results last month, when Vietnam entered...
...Ribicoff committee was not letting up on Lance. It released an affidavit from Michael Patriarca, a low-level attorney on the staff of the Comptroller of the Currency, which belatedly contradicted assertions by Lance that he lad never asked anyone in the Comptroller's office to lift sanctions against the Calhoun bank so his record would be cleaner as he faced confirmation hearings. Patriarca claimed that last Nov. 22 Lance had asked Donald Tarleton, the Atlanta regional director for the Comptroller, to do just that. (Tarleton had also denied any such overture by Lance.) Clearly, the assault on Lance...