Word: pass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mary Meyer Grants Pass...
...weapons-procurement bill that says nothing about sanctions. Odds are that a HouseSenate conference called to reconcile the two versions of the arms bill would drop the Senate's rider, rather than force Carter into a veto that could not be overridden, and that would oblige Congress to pass the vital weapons bill a second time...
...build more plants. Says the bill's author, Pennsylvania Democrat William Moorhead: "The need for this approach is clearly established, and private enterprise is just not powerful enough to go it alone." Adds Irving Shapiro, chairman of Du Pont chemicals: "During war we declare a national emergency, pass a war powers act and give the President the authority to do things necessary to win the war. Now we should pass an energy powers act, to give the President the power to set aside unnecessary regulations and barriers to the production of energy...
Among the other marvels is Merrill's mastery of forms, so skillful as to pass by almost unnoticed. Humans speak in a supple, casually rhymed iambic pentameter. A hurricane strikes the East Coast...
...Lion Eat Straw is the story of Abeba, the "African Flower," who is born in rural North Carolina to an absentee father and a resentful mother. That mother soon disappears, bound for Brooklyn. Abeba's first six years pass happily with old Mamma Habblesham, a midwife, in this land of makeshift and make-believe...