Word: parliamentarians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...council spent the rest of the meeting dealing with organizational matters, including the nomination of a Faculty parliamentarian and assignments to the various council subcommittees...
...French Academy unleashed a monumentally unsuccessful offensive against the invasion of Franglais, which brought le smoking (dinner jacket) and le footing (a walk) into the language of Racine and Corneille. Now French speakers in Belgium want to rid their vocabulary of a similar disease - Belglais. Leading the campaign is Parliamentarian Antoinette Spaak (daughter of the late statesman Paul-Henri Spaak). She wants a law that would penalize Belglais-speaking government officials 65? to $2.50 per offense, depending on how flagrant it is ruled...
RICHARD BOLLING, 60, of Missouri, who has served almost half of his life in the House. Though he is highly respected. Boiling's haughty intellectual manner sometimes ruffles colleagues. A ranking member of the Rules Committee, Boiling is a keen parliamentarian who has written two books critical of the House. If elected. Boiling would push for congressional reform and a liberal approach on domestic matters...
Using a strategy all-too-familiar to post-Watergate America, the DC delayed investigation of the Lockheed scandal, in which several top Christian Democrats were implicated, until after the elections. The case of neofascist parliamentarian Sandro Saccuccu, who is awaiting extradition in London on charges of shooting a Communist at a street rally, was also postponed until after the elections--but Saccucci, who was reelected to Parliament, may now be able to obtain immunity from prosecution...
...then spent two years in Southern California, working part time, listening and learning and meeting thousands of Americans. It was there that I found a political compass that has served me well through my subsequent lifetime career as a parliamentarian, internationalist and democrat...