Word: membered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...away crucial swing-voters that both Labor and the Tories need in order to win office. A tough and shrewd infighter, he made it plain at one point that the choice was between him and the left's proposals. Callaghan won, but not before Eric Heffer, a leading member of the left-wing Tribune Group, grumbled, "Jim, you're not God, you know. I'm not even sure you're a socialist...
...real scrap will be over Carter's tax proposal. Not only must both the House Ways and Means Committee and the generally pro-industry Senate Finance Committee agree on its details, but after that, the full House and Senate must also vote on the tax. Says a key member of the Senate Energy Committee, Louisiana Democrat J. Bennett Johnston: "There are almost as many views of what is a fair tax and what its proper uses would be as there are members of Congress...
...companies would be able to reduce their windfall profits taxes each year by stepping up expenditures on increased production. Smaller oil companies and wildcatters are also joining the battle against the windfall profits tax, but plan to do their own lobbying. Explains Jack Allen, president of the 5,000-member- Independent Petroleum Association of America: "We don't want to be tarred with the same brush as the oil majors...
Susan Peterson, a member of the strike commemoration committee told the audience that the rally organizers are not "hopeless nostalgics. We're not waiting for the sixties to return, but just as this University was complicit in the war through ROTC, it is complicit now in apartheid through its investments," Peterson said
Carl F. Rosen '80, vice-chairman of the assembly and a CDU member, said this week the CDU may soon begin to steer a path more independent of the assembly...