Word: sailings
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Certainly the President is under no illusion that his bill is likely to sail through with few changes. The latest poll for TIME by Yankelovich Partners Inc. confirms what nearly all observers had sensed: his plan has suffered a serious loss of support since he outlined it in a stirring speech to Congress on Sept. 22. The next day, 57% of those polled generally approved, but last week only 43% did; 36% were opposed, vs. 31% five weeks earlier, and the proportion of those "not sure" increased from 12% to 21%. Responses to some more detailed questions indicated worse trouble...
...complete, and the scoreboard showed 216-216. Deadlock would have meant defeat. Whereupon Williams and Margolies-Mezvinsky went to the rostrum and cast their ayes on paper. "I did it not so much for the budget," Williams said, "as for movement. My vote was to help us set sail again...
...BOTTOM LINE: Though he never dives deep, Halberstam offers an engrossing sail across a pivotal decade...
Ginsburg's nomination is likely to sail through the Senate despite concerns among liberals about the centrist position she has assumed on the Appeals Court (she has voted as often with the Republican appointees as with the Carter appointees). Women's groups are also worried over criticism the pro- choice Ginsburg leveled at the Roe v. Wade decision in a speech last March. She had contended that equal protection, rather than privacy, would have been better grounds and created less of a backlash. The strong reaction surprised her. Says Stanford law professor Barbara Babcock, who had dinner with her shortly...
...wrote Around the World in 80 Days more than a century ago. But it was not until last week that the challenge set down in 1873 by Verne's fictional Phileas Fogg -- to circle the globe in 80 days -- was conquered on the high seas. Aboard the 86-ft. sail-powered catamaran Commodore Explorer, French adventurer Bruno Peyron and his crew of four sailed triumphantly into France's Pouliguen harbor, 79 days and 6 hours after embarking from Brittany, smashing the existing circumnavigation record (109 days). It wasn't easy. En route, Commodore struck a pod of whales off Brazil...