Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Section 14-B, which allows states to have right-to-work laws that prohibit compulsory union shops, any real presidential pressure to force this measure through Congress would almost certainly create an uproar. It might harden the conservative-liberal schisms in both houses to the point where Johnson could lose valuable support on other more important bills. Though repeal of the clause was demanded in the 1960 and 1964 Democratic platforms, there seems little likelihood the President will risk a fight for it now. Says Mansfield: "We ought to have the legislation, but I am doubtful that we will...
Albert's technique was low pressure and easygoing. "You get criticized for not cracking the whip," he says, "but it doesn't make sense, for example, to make enemies that will lose you the farm bill to get the poverty bill, when you can get both." When Rayburn died in 1961 and John McCormack became Speaker, Carl Albert easily won the majority leader...
...mind ...survival and peace of mind." Leary explains that the LSD experience frees men from the egotistic frustration of cultural "games". "Anger and anxiety are irrelevant because you see your small game in the context of the great evolutionary game which no one can win and no one can lose...
...passed a package of such changes in its rules by a 224-201 vote. The most important item in the package is the 21 day rule, which will allow the Speaker to call up bills for floor action after three weeks in the Rules Committee. In addition, Rules will lose much of its power to keep a bill already passed out of a House-Senate conference. Another change will prevent unnecessary delays of roll-call votes. Liberals also scored a victory by increasing Democratic margins on the House Appropriations and Ways and Means Committees to reflect the 295 140 Democratic...
Dave Dooley, Tom Musliner, and Dan Isaacson each won two bouts in the foil, the weapon in which Harvard was expected to lose heavily, and one of Musliner's victories came against Steve Weinstein, an All-American...