Word: membered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senators who promised to vote for me?and especially the 24 who actually did." But he was nonetheless shocked by the loss. He pulled himself together and became a very energetic Senator. At one point, he served on about three dozen committees and subcommittees, more than any other Senate member, and too many to be efficient, as he later learned. Senators on both sides of the aisle have come to respect him as an able legislator, on the Senate floor and in its hearing rooms. Republican Majority Leader Howard Baker calls him "one of the half-dozen most effective people...
...twelve-member commission selected by Jimmy Carter is headed by Dartmouth College President John Kemeny, an eminent mathematician and nuclear expert, and has as members a balance of leaders from the sciences, politics, labor and academe. Nuclear power proponents had hoped that an unbiased investigation would find the Three Mile Island accident such a rare and isolated sequence of equipment failures and human errors as to have no implications for the safety of the other 72 U.S. nuclear power plants or the 88 new plants for which construction permits have been granted. But the commission's report places...
...year-old representative attributes her success at avoiding arrest or exile to the "moral immunity" that comes with being an elected member of Parliament. She adds that supporters of apartheid have called her the "choice of everything that is unpatriotic and anti-South African." She comments: "I get hell in Parliament, but then I expect it...I'm very provocative...
Sullivan is pastor of the Zion Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pa., and a member of the board of directors of General Motors Corporation...
...Harvard and Radcliffe, separates it from the run-of-the-mill University committee. The Joint Policy Committee is, in essence, the last resort--the place where the buck may finally stop on the long and tortuous administrative path. "It's really there to settle thorny problems." says senior corporation member Francis H. Burr '35 who sits on the committee. "I like to think of it as a safety valve...