Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those other women" had descended on Houston to argue, lobby, demonstrate and compromise. They were responding to an unprecedented request by Congress to "identify barriers that prevent women from participating fully and equally in all aspects of national life" and recommend ways to eliminate them...
Although the President is committed to the women's movement and its goals, he is also a fiscal moderate?and the Houston conference called for help from Washington on a staggering scale. Congress will be cool to such costly items as the request for the Government to bankroll more "comprehensive, nonsexist, quality child-care and developmental programs," shelters for battered wives and new plans for training poor working women and women on welfare.* Moreover, considering the shaky state of the Social Security system's finances, housewives probably will not receive benefits unless a way is devised to have them...
...International Airport for a year and a half, but New York had been closed to the plane under the pressure of local civic groups and politicians, who argued it was too noisy. The last barrier fell Oct. 17 when the U.S. Supreme Court denied the Port Authority's request to extend...
...start a successful routine. He tells the audience that he wants to play a song on his banjo (which he plays admirably on the record) and that he needs a blue spotlight for the number. The lighting crew at the back of the auditorium doesn't respond to his request. So Martin launches into a tirade about the hippie lighting crew that thinks it knows more about show business than Martin does, even though he's been in the business "for a few years, and I think I know what works best...
Madson said yesterday that the administration's request does not violate the First Amendment, adding that "the exposure" could not find a court decision to support its contention...