Word: neill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...administrator there, Jacqueline A. O'Neill, wins near-unanimous acclaim for almost single-handedly making human communication possible between the monolithic, bureaucratic University and diverse activist groups which dot the Cambridge...
...first and only female vice-president of Harvard, O'Neill manages to walk the shaky tightrope between the professional, the political and the personal as successfully as she juggles University-community concerns...
With a Speaker of the House as a father-in-law and a former lieutenant governor for a husband, O'Neill has developed a knack for political negotiation by osmosis in her 17 years of marriage. A Dedham native herself, the 40-year-old O'Neill became intimate with every door of Cambridge during the campaigns of various members of her family...
House Speaker Tip O'Neill proposed raising taxes to pay for a $1.6 billion bill -- a sure non-starter in an election year. His lieutenants wanted to raise the necessary funds by nicking every Government program for an infinitesimal amount. No way, said Senate colleagues; their favorite programs had already been repeatedly trimmed and pared to fit the budget. Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole decided charity was in order: he wanted taxpayers to donate a dollar or two of their tax refunds next year...
...last-minute campaign to head off the override. Three days after he vetoed the sanctions bill, which had been passed in August by the Senate (84 to 14) and then later by the House of Representatives (308 to 77), the President sent a letter to House Speaker Tip O'Neill offering to impose some measures in an Executive Order. The proposal included bans on the import of iron and steel but omitted coal and other important items, like the cancellation of airport landing rights. Congress was in no mood to settle for half a loaf. Reagan's offer, said...