Word: recessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heard hearty laughter and loud, chicha-induced talk coming from the deep recess of the bottom floor of this two-story house...
...Times and other groups, this was hardly enough. CTOC supports extension of controls to cover all units and demands that no increases be granted by the rent control board. Screams of "Let the tenants speak" and "We want real rent control" forced Mayor Sullivan to call a five-minute recess...
...93rd U.S. Congress began last week on the eve of the Chinese New Year, the Year of the Tiger. But there were very few tigers in evidence among the returning 431 Congressmen and 100 Senators. Their sojourn among the voters back home during the 29-day holiday recess exposed them to an American public that was angry, suspicious, impatient and sour, and one, moreover, that was sharply divided on how to solve the nation's problems. Energy shortages, exploding prices, dwindling jobs, all conspired to make 1974, for most legislators, loom as their Year of the Nervous Stomach...
...President also asked Congress to forget the Emergency Energy Act that got bogged down before the Christmas recess because of disagreement over taxing oil companies' "excess profits." Instead, Nixon wants Congress to whip through a "basic bill" that would make the Administration's fuel-allocation and conservation measures legally binding. Energy Chief William E. Simon is afraid that unless these measures are quickly made mandatory, consumers will slacken their so far successful conservation efforts, particularly if the Arab oil flow resumes. Yet in its present mood of hostility to oil companies, Congress will almost certainly ignore the President...
Rounding out the Harvard representatives, Tom Wolfe took a first in the 500-yard freestyle and Ted Fullerton won the 200-yard breaststroke. Fullerton's time of 2:15.9 is his best since the Christmas recess, but a full two seconds off his best time. Nevertheless, he set a New England AAU regional record...