Word: membered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...firms must meet. Kennedy-Metzenbaum would aggravate the problem. Though big U.S. companies would be stopped from buying up others at home, foreign investors would be allowed to come in and continue acquiring almost as much as they want. Said Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, a Judiciary Committee member who has fought hard against the bill: "We are at a time in our history when we should be doing all in our power to make it easier, not harder, for our corporations to compete on an international basis." Senator Jacob Javits of New York, the ranking Republican...
...only for the meeting but also to push a lawsuit that is part of his fight to elbow his way onto the Ford board. Also present was Henry's only son Edsel, 30, who is assistant managing director of the company's Australian operation and the only member of the younger generation of Fords now being groomed for an important role in the firm...
Despite a broad consensus among non-Government economists that prices will rise by at least 8% this year, Jimmy Carter and his chief aides have insisted that the inflation rate could be held to 7.4%. Now one Administration member has dared to discuss reality out loud. Testifying before the Senate appropriations subcommittee, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal said that the rate of price rises in 1979 will be "at least 8% to 8.5%" and maybe "slightly higher...
...against whites, those who valued music instruction against those who wanted foreign languages. It was neighborhood against neighborhood, teachers against administration, north Evanston vs. south Evanston. "We may have generated more hostility and more unfulfilled expectations by opening debate than if we had never asked for opinions," says Board Member Mary Anne Wexler, who like many others on the board began to feel worn out and put upon as the months of combat dragged...
John E. McDonough, the member of the national staff of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union who suggested the resolution, said that the city's action reaffirms its commitment to the national boycott of the corporation...