Word: move
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate history, first-term Democrats James Abourezk of South Dakota and Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio turned the chamber into a marathon slumber party that kept the Senators up until dawn the first day, late the following night, and threatened to continue this week. Their stated objective: to block any move to lift the federal ceiling on the price of natural gas sold interstate. The ordeal was fresh evidence that an independent and unpredictable Senate is defying its own leadership and the White House. The week also marked the emergence of Byrd as one of Carter's closest and most...
...than the Carter plan but lower than what decontrol advocates figured the free-market price would be ($2.75 to $3.25). Byrd won the approval of Abourezk and Metzenbaum for the Jackson compromise. But the Senators who favor decontrol refused to go along. To block the compromise -and prevent a move to freeze prices at the current ceiling-they began their own talk fest. Said Louisiana Democrat Russell Long: "A filibuster is an act of piracy. So if there's going to be a filibuster, I'm going to be a pirate too.* With that, he began calling...
London added he would probably move to a River house next year because "you've got the sense that's where everything is happening--that's what people tell...
...said she had tried to move to a River house but found that transfer students are not permitted to make inter-house transfers...
Womack's image will move across the silver screen tonight at the Central Square Cinema, when he makes a cameo appearance in the popular 1974 film "Badlands," starring Sissy Spacek, Martin Sheen and Warren Oates...