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...bill, hastily passed before the pre-election congressional recess, contained a one-year prohibition on legislators from lobbying former colleagues and a lifetime ban on lobbying by Executive Branch officials on any matter in which they had been involved. The President said he refused to sign the measure because he feared that it might deter qualified people from accepting Government jobs...
From our conversation with the committee's members, we understand that they will issue a report to the Faculty before Thanks-giving recess. This report will include specific recommendations, not only general statements. We understand that the Committee will take into consideration the recommendations in our report and the ones included in a report written by a similar Faculty Committee at the University of California at Berkeley. We hope that Harvard's report will follow the same lines...
Speaker of the House George Keverian (D-Everett) called the chamber back into session after a three-month recess, fulfilling his promise to reconvene the House as soon as the Senate passed the state auto-insurance bill. That happened on October...
Institute of Politics Director Richard L. Thornburgh concluded his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last Friday and is expected to be confirmed later this week as the next attorney general before Congress goes into recess for the Republican National Convention, Senate aides said yesterday...
...scarcely be Wimbledon. But the pause in the third set with Graf on a rampage only stressed the powerful points, backhands and back of the hands that Steffi was making in rising up from her bland opening set to take nine of ten games going away. Tellingly, during the recess, Navratilova sought hurried treatment for a complaining leg muscle while Graf sprawled like a teenager in front of the TV. "Bodies warm up easier at 19 than they do at 31," sighed the woman finished off (5-7, 6-2, 6-1) by the girl...