Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Towards the last few weeks of the push for ratification, Michael A. Calabrese '79, former chairman of the convention, and a few insiders in the convention were aware of a North Carolina appeals court decision ruling that a student government minority plank similar to the one in Harvard's student government was unconstitutional. Calabrese did not tell all the other members of the convention of the ruling, because he feared fueling the controversy around the minority plank and he said he thought it would merely confuse students. Epps also knew about the judicial decision, but made no special effort...
...Senate, the Finance Committee will begin this week to mark up its version of the House-passed tax bill. Once again Carter has to deal with opposition from Committee Chairman Long, who is expected to push for a larger tax cut than the $16.3 billion approved by the House and may try to reduce the maximum 35% capital gams tax rate in the bill to 21%. The President has warned that if the changes are too drastic, or too much in favor of the rich, he will react with the ultimate weapon at his command: a veto...
...members of the AFL-CIO executive council are over 65, and cannot cling to power much longer. Already, some slightly younger and far more aggressive leaders are rising in prominence on the council and talking of new organizing drives, new methods of enhancing labor's political push. Among them are Sol Chaikin, 60, president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers; William Winpisinger, 53, chief of the Machinists; Jerry Wurf, 59, head of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). But the new leaders will have to cope with powerful economic and social forces that have been reducing...
When it's all over, the sidewalks in both the Brattle Square area and on Massachusetts Avenue will be expanded to almost twice their normal size--providing more room for the street musicians as well as pedestrians. The plan is to push all the traffic lanes into the center, thus widening out space along the street In addition. changes will be noted at the regular kiosk stop. The architects, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, have come up with a snazzy-looking station that overall resembles the fifth floor of Macy's on a slow day. The old entrance at the kiosk...
...vast majority of injuries result from what doctors call the "overuse syndrome"-trying to push the out-of-condition over-30 body too far too fast. Los Angeles Orthopedist Sonny Cobble says simply that weekend jocks as a class tend to suffer from "an acute case of simplemindedness. Most of us have a tendency to remember our youth." Dr. Marshall Rockwell, who together with several partners operates seven Los Angeles hospital emergency rooms, reports that a majority of weekend athletes are middle class and "tend to be quite competitive." Adds Braden: "It's almost like when they finally...