Word: recessing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other 20 members of the House-Senate conference committee (ten from each chamber). Finally the full committee gave its stamp of approval Saturday night. Though messy details remain to be filled in, and some elements of the compromise may be renegotiated after Congress returns from its three- week recess on Sept. 8, there seems little doubt that both houses will pass a final bill by overwhelming margins, and Reagan will be happy to sign it into law, no doubt with great fanfare...
...rear of the chamber while the Senators ignored him and droned through time-killing rituals. Meanwhile, opponents of the sale, fearing that they would lose if a vote on overriding the veto were taken immediately, threatened a filibuster that--horrors!--could have delayed the chamber's Memorial Day recess. Finally, at 6:30, Dole acknowledged Saunders and announced a decision: the Senate would begin debate when it reconvened June 2, after the ten-day break, and vote by 2 p.m. on June...
While Harvard's baseball team was training in Florida, its softball team gearing up in South Carolina, and its men's tennis team practicing in California, the men's lacrosse team was hard at work, tackling three East Coast schools during spring recess...
...Harvard women's lacrosse team opened its 1985-'86 campaign by posting a 2-1 mark over the spring recess, knocking off Ivy foes Penn and Princeton while falling to perennial national powerhouse Temple...
...meeting. Although the agenda was to debate and approve the Spring Grants Budget, and more than $24,000 of constituents' money would be disbursed, the number of members quickly dwindled to below that necessary for a quorum under the council bylaws (a simply majority). A motion was passed to recess the council for 15 minutes, and when the council reconvened, enough members had been rounded up to allow the UC to continue with its important business...