Word: recessions
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...cricket. Fourteen House Republicans are members of their party's national convention Platform Committee, which starts work in San Francisco on July 6. Those members quite understandably would like to be on hand to shape the platform, and Halleck had been aiming for a July 3-20 House recess. Now he ruefully recalled the help that he and his G.O.P. colleagues had given Johnson on civil rights: "Memories are real short around here...
...powerful National Education Association, spokesman for 902,000 classroom teachers, frowns on the words "strike" and "boycott"-they describe highly unprofessional behavior. But in Utah last week, 10,000 N.E.A. teachers went on a two-day "recess" while the association voted "sanctions" against the whole state, and for all Utah knew it might just as well have been struck and boycotted...
...letter originated at Tulane University in New Orleans last summer. It came to Harvard from Stanford University in California over the spring recess...
...held its first meeting on the report before the Easter recess and met again this week for further discussion. Ford said the Committee would continue to meet weekly to consider possible changes and revisions...
...demonstrations had been organized to coincide with Easter, and we students were missing no classes, we were especially prone to this charge of moral irresponsibility. To prove that we were not there on a "college weekend", many of us fasted while in jail, and some overstayed their school recess...