Word: quiets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd has kept things quiet by refusing to schedule votes on Fridays, thus inviting Senators to leave town Thursday night for weekend politicking back home. While floor action often runs beyond dinnertime in busier periods, the Senate has been adjourning around 5:30 p.m. Minority Leader Howard Baker jokes wryly that new members may get the wrong idea and think these hours are normal. Says he: "I have to remind them not to get used...
...since the administration clearly cannot hear a quiet voice, perhaps they will hear a boycott...
...ENGELHARD LIBRARY is a small, unpublicized basement facility used by only a few graduate students. This quiet commemoration of a million-dollar contribution provoked a vehement student reaction which needs no recounting here. On the other hand the Kennedy School accepted a like sum from a major oil company with great fanfare. It proclaimed the ARCO Public Affairs Forum the focal point of the new building. Every speech, debate, reception or symposium has been heralded by a series of posters and newspaper notices emphasizing the capitalized ARCO name. But this has not moved students to question its propriety. The Forum...
...story revolves around Joey Evans, cheap nightclub dancer par excellence, who gives up Linda English, the girl he loves, to profit from the attentions of Vera Simpson, a wealthy matron willing to pay--quiet handsomely--for her pleasures. Joey quickly tires of Vera and look pleasures. Joey quickly tires of Vera and looks and Linda against...
Though the 10,000 or so dissidents will play no direct role in negotiations, their views accurately reflect those of many union members who have not joined them. The national leadership feels that a big settlement would help quiet members' broad complaints about unsafe working conditions, compulsory overtime and mismanagement of pension funds. If Fitzsimmons settles for too little, he risks handing the dissidents a major arguing point in future struggles...