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...oversee the new campaign financing law. Three of its six $38,000-a-year seats have been filled with losers. The President appointed one: former Missouri Congressman Tom Curtis, 63, who lost his Senate race against Tom Eagleton. Two others were named by House party leaders: Rhode Island Democrat Robert Tiernan, 46, and Wisconsin Republican Vernon Thomson...
After much internal struggle and strain, the Democrats managed last week to produce their long-awaited " alternative" to President Ford's price-oriented energy program. The plan, drafted in haste by ad hoc task forces from both Houses of Congress, led by Rhode Island Senator John Pastore and Texas Representative James Wright, had both practical and political purposes. First, it was intended as a guide for Democrats on various committees drafting energy legislation, although it is not binding upon them. Second, and more important, it was to serve as the Democrats' bargaining position in working out energy policy...
Members of the 16-team East Coast Volleyball League include Wentworth Institute, the University of Rhode Island. Penn State and other Ivy teams...
Over $700,000 in state funds may be withheld this year from Brown University as a result of a ruling last week by a Rhode Island commission that the school is guilty of salary discrimination on the basis...
...Rhode Island Commission for Human Rights last week found the university guilty of the discrimination following a complaint by Jane Thompson, a psychiatric social worker...