Word: recording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which it had only itself to blame. At issue was a 7% pay hike that would in crease Congressmen's salaries to $61,525 a year. The House first passed the mea sure, 156 to 64, using a parliamentary procedure that kept individual members' votes from being recorded, thus preventing constituents back home from learning which Congressmen supported the raise and which ones opposed it Later, pay-raise opponents forced a roll call, which required that a record be made of how each member voted. Asked Republican Representative Gerald Solomon of New York: "Does anyone in the House...
Suddenly the thought struck me that for all the bombast and rudeness, we were participants in a charade. While the tone was bellicose and the manner extremely rough, the Soviet leaders were speaking for the record, and when they had said enough to have a transcript to send to Hanoi, they would stop...
...will. Through all this Gromyko preserved an aloof kind of dignity; he was loyal and compliant but not obsequious. He became the indispensable drive wheel of Soviet foreign policy, the consummate Soviet diplomat, well briefed, confident and tenacious. It was suicidal to negotiate with him without mastering the record or the issues. He had a prodigious memory that enabled him to bank every concession he believed we had made-or even hinted at. It would then become the starting point for the next round. Before he was elevated to the Politburo in 1973, he was an implementer, not a maker...
Throughout their 15-year history of standout record sales (U.S. and Canada totals: over 10 million) and intramural brawling, The Who have always pushed hard, even when they were teasing their audience and torturing themselves, and the band's loyalists have responded with exacting, even grueling, expectations...
...monthly bullion auction that the U.S. Treasury could have sold four times the 750,000 oz. it offered. That, along with rumors of especially heavy orders for gold from buyers in the Middle East, stirred a wave of panic buying that pushed the price of bullion up by a record $24 an oz. in just one day. Trading was so hectic that the normal 500-an-oz. spread between buying and selling prices widened at times to $5. Gold hit an all-time high of $380 in London before slipping back at week's end to $369-up nearly...