Word: mervyn
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...House floor as he pressed his colleagues to vote for impeachment. The judge "has failed to measure up," the Michigan Democrat declared. Voting in favor of impeachment was a painful task for the civil rights coalition in the House. The dissenters also shared the anxiety. Said California Congressman Mervyn Dymally of his negative vote: "In the final analysis I wanted to be able to sleep. I just had to go by the ((1983)) jury decision...
...raging in the inner city among IV drug abusers, their sexual partners and children. The alarmist prophecies promoted in Crisis may discredit ongoing efforts to control the disease. "This plants the seeds of distrust in a group that the public should be able to look to for answers," argues Mervyn Silverman, former San Francisco public health director. Crying wolf, as Masters and Johnson have done, is no way to fight an epidemic...
Representatives from New York City, for example, are rallying in support of a bill sponsored by Rep. Mervyn Dymally (D.-Calif.), which will force the Census Bureau to use statistical adjustments in the 2000 census. The bill is receiving such support, according to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, because New York City officials estimate that the 1980 census missed more than 800,000 New York residents, causing the metropolis to lose $25 million in federal funding...
...results, though compelling, may also say something about the mood swings of the American public. Only two years ago, these same people might have said that you cannot solve problems by throwing money at them. "Americans have always expressed ambivalent desires about the role of Government," says California Pollster Mervyn Field. "We ask, Why doesn't the Government just get off our backs? And then we demand, Why doesn't the Government do something about this? Today, in several ways, the Government is off the public's back. Taxes are down. Inflation is down. Interest rates are down...
...role, it had been turned down by George Raft, Paul Muni, John Garfield and Edward G. Robinson. Edward C. Judson, a middle-aged businessman who married the 18-year-old Rita Cansino and guided her career as Rita Hayworth, kept an electric train for her to play with. Producer Mervyn LeRoy took the script of Quo Vadis? to the Vatican and had no trouble getting Pope Pius XII to bless...