Word: renewers
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...once again take up a bill banning abortions using the controversial partial-birth technique. So far, Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum says he's counted 62 'yes' votes, enough for Senate passage but still five short of the two-thirds majority needed to override a veto. An opportunity to renew the debate opened up after after Ron Fitzsimmons, the executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers who was frequently used to support President Clinton's assurances the procedure is uncommon, said he lied about just how often the abortions occur. The admission, the GOP believes, gives the bill...
...Washington, but the access they were given to Madeleine Albright last week was remarkable. For Blackman, who met Albright when she was working on Geraldine Ferraro's 1984 vice-presidential campaign and has kept in touch with Albright's network of close women friends, it was a chance to renew old ties. Waller, meantime, followed Albright through a typical workday, riding in her limousine and sitting in on meetings from 7:30 a.m. until late in the evening. "She's fun to cover," says Waller, our new State Department correspondent. "But I came away exhausted just watching the pace...
...council decides not to renew his contract, it must inform Healy at least 60 days prior to the contract's expiration
...that the republic chooses to renew itself in the dead of winter. From George Washington's first Inaugural in late April 1789 the ceremony was pushed back to early March, and from F.D.R. to the present it has been locked in this hard, white burial vault of a month. The Dakotas, frozen thick for weeks, sent an ice wind east for the occasion, but it thawed a bit by Monday. The government bundled up before the fluted columns like an ice sculpture at a wedding--an impressive, preposterous construction molded to take one's mind off the reality that...
...Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced that it will renew Harvard's Mellon grant until 2001, "in recognition of the continued need for diversity on college and university campuses...