Word: pass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wright began calling several dozen Democratic Congressmen to enlist their support. He said later, "A lot of them wanted the lifting of the embargo to pass, but they didn't want to vote for it." With an election only three months away, most Congressmen preferred not to antagonize the influential Greek lobby. But by the time the issue hit the House floor, Wright had a list of 16 Democrats whom he could call on if necessary to back the President...
Alas, this did not come to pass. What went wrong? Dayan apparently promised more than the Begin government was willing or able to deliver. Even though he acted in good faith, the Foreign Minister may have misinterpreted Begin's intentions or miscalculated the new Premier's flexibility. Beyond that, it now seems clear that, when they finally met, Begin and Sadat neither liked nor understood each other. Right from the beginning the misunderstandings were apparent. Sadat, for example, said in Jerusalem that the last Israeli settlement in the Sinai should determine the Israeli border of the buffer zone...
...bill that would free the CAB from its legal responsibility to fix fares and routes has passed the Senate but is bogged down in the House. It is expected to pass eventually, though probably not this year. Deregulation would be the most radical change in U.S. aviation history, greatly affecting the lines' ability to raise money for their next cycle of jet purchases...
...Laura Mars is simply another in a long line of hyped-up fiascos. The picture starts nowhere and goes nowhere, the story is plain dumb and the acting is pathetically poor. The director seems to have hastily thrown together some pretty bad bits and pieces and tried to pass it off as a whole motion picture...
...local school districts, which were expected to educate children of servicemen. In Midwest City, Okla., for example, the number of kids in classes jumped from 285 to 1,500 in one year after Tinker Air Force Base opened near by. School officials around the country lobbied Congress to pass a law granting federal aid in lieu of the local property taxes that the base or the soldiers living there, if they were civilians, would have paid...