Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that narrow margin, the Ford Administration averted a second damaging shake-up in the highest reaches of the Government. With political reverberations over his Cabinet shuffle of two weeks earlier not yet stilled, the President obviously could hardly afford a second crisis. Thus he was expected to do what he could to assuage Moynihan and keep him on the job. Similarly, a few days earlier, the President had had to mollify Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who had privately complained that the Administration was not giving him full backing in his confrontation with the House Select Committee on Intelligence...
...addition to an increase in the city income tax, the plan included higher levies on banks, automobiles and cigarettes, and new taxes on barbershops, beauty parlors and massage parlors. After a stormy all-night debate, the New York city council approved the tax package by a one-vote margin. But the bill bogged down in Albany, and by week's end its prospects remained unclear...
Students in Mather House voted last week by a narrow margin to select an 11-member panel of Mather students that is empowered to nominate students for the CRR. The Mather panel will meet sometime after Thanksgiving vacation, William H. Hammet '77, a member of the panel, said Monday...
Downey opened her stellar performance with a five-second margin of victory in the 100 yd. IM with a 1:06.8. She then set a team record with a 27.0 second 50 yd. freestyle. Downey finished by taking the 100 yd. freestyle in 59.0 seconds and participating on the winning 200 yd. freestyle relay team...
Despite this, students in Mather House voted last week by a margin of 122 to 111 to begin the process of nominating students to the CRR. Moves to end the student boycott of the CRR in 1971 and 1973 were not successful. This attempt should fail also. The Mater vote showed an amazing lack of knowledge about the CRR and its history. Students should be more informed about the issues involved in the boycott of the CRR and should continue the boycott...