Word: lineup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...witnesses set off the most partisan wrangle of the committee hearings so far. Democrats argued that most had already testified in other forums and would delay the committee's work. The debate continued for nearly six hours, with four Democrats at one point joining a solid Republican lineup for including the St. Clair choices. That produced a 21-to-17 vote in St. Clair's favor. But then Chairman Rodino called a recess, caucused with the committee Democrats and persuaded two of the four (Don Edwards of California and James Mann of South Carolina) to switch their votes...
...Strange Lineup. To gain the support of Japan's conservative voters, Tanaka is campaigning as the defender of ancient Japanese virtues and patriotism (TIME, June 17). At the same time, he has tried to enhance the party's box office appeal by jazzing up the ticket with a strange lineup of candidates, including a well-known television interviewer, a slapstick comedian, Actress Akiko Santo and a skin-flick producer...
...eclectic lineup at this week's Newport Jazz Festival is emphatic proof of the new unity among jazz, rock, the blues, soul, even the pop song. A single event at the Roseland Ballroom, for example, will offer both the sophisticated big-band arrangements of Harry James and the Latin style of Tito Puente. At Carnegie Hall, Pianist Keith Jarrett will spin forth some of the most elegant, technically proficient, classically tinted jazz since Art Tatum. On another night, Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton and Pianist Teddy Wilson will mix it up with Drummer Buddy Rich and Bassist Milt Hinton in what...
...democracy" to the system by giving the nation's 246 local PBS stations the budgetary power to control programming by buying or rejecting possible PBS shows in a form of program "auction." Only those shows winning sufficient financial commitment from local stations will be included in the PBS lineup...
Just as awkwardly, the Socialists, Social Democrats and Republicans (who have been partners with the Christian Democrats since 1963 in Italy's string of center-left Cabinets) sided with the Communists in support of the law. Because of this lineup, the issue, for many voters, evolved into a classic contest of right v. left...