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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rapid rise to Ivy League prominence is no accident. In seniors Ellen O'Neill and Andy Mainelli, Harvard's got two of the finest players anywhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sticking With a Freshman | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...votes to the Republican side in the passage of Reagan's 1981 budget and massive three-year tax cut. Voting in Congress, of course, is more than the pulling of a lever, and we think Shannon, an instant protegee of Speaker of the House Rep. Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill (D-Cambridge), will prove that he is more than a litmus-test liberal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tap Shannon... | 9/13/1984 | See Source »

...assumption that its own maunderings are more interesting than what is being said on the platform -that you would rather hear Rather speak smugly, as he did in San Francisco, of the "pitter-patter of platitudes" than hear the hoarse Irish oratory of Speaker Tip O'Neill, which CBS did not carry. Networks cover tennis matches with more fidelity to the action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch Thomas Griffith: TV's Condescending Coverage | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

Democrats know, however, that Reagan has them on the defensive and are ready to join the game, even to turn it deftly against the President. House Speaker Tip O'Neill tipped off the strategy by declaring last week, "Any day the President wants to send up a balanced budget, I guarantee I will get it on the floor within 48 hours." Democratic Congressman James Jones of Oklahoma, chairman of the House Budget Committee, introduced a bill that would require the President to submit a balanced budget by Oct. 1 of each year, the start of the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Posturing, Not Legislating | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

...cost of the reforms. He told Republican Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming that a flat $4 billion lump-sum grant might get his approval. "You give me that," Reagan told Simpson. "That can be an acceptable bill." The delighted Simpson passed this news to Speaker O'Neill, who replied, "Send the damn thing over. We'll go to conference." Despite the obituaries, the bill was thus not yet dead, but it was not healthy either. Only a starkly simple political reality had jeopardized the long-awaited attempt to do something about America's chaotic situation along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Posturing, Not Legislating | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

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