Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elected Democratic whip, making him second in command to Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. In the aftermath of Chappaquiddick, however, Kennedy became distracted, neglected the job and left too many of his responsibilities to the No. 3 Democratic leader, Robert Byrd of West Virginia. Byrd did the work so well that he upset Kennedy for the post...
...Kennedy strode toward his six-room corner suite on the second floor, accompanied by half a dozen dark-suited Secret Service men, TV crews in the corridor snapped on their lights and correspondents crowded around to ask questions. All they got was a three-second glimpse of him closing the door. After a quick huddle with more aides, Kennedy popped across the hallway?on went the TV lights?and into the paneled Judiciary Committee hearing room. There was a hush in the audience and then an excited buzz. Kennedy walked quickly to his seat and rapped the committee into session...
Exxon set off the latest oil brouhaha with a bland eight-page report on its business from July through September. This showed that the world's second largest firm (after General Motors) had more than doubled its profits to a walloping $1.1 billion-its first billion-dollar quarter in history. Soon after, other U.S. energy corporations reported spectacular quarterly earnings. Among the majors, Texaco walked away with the dubious first prize of a 211% increase, while Standard Oil of Ohio was second at 191% and Conoco third...
...response, it was decided, would have to demonstrate a readiness to repel any North Korean adventurism, but without any provocative overdramatization. All U.S. units in South Korea, including the Second Infantry Division and the 72 F-4 fighters of the 8,000-man Air Force detachment, were put on a "defense condition 3" level of alert, two notches below a red alert. The Pentagon sent the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk toward a South Korean port and rushed two Airborne Warning and Control planes to the area to monitor North Korean military movements. U.S. diplomats in Peking and Moscow urged...
...asked for $1.2 billion. One worry: Booz, Allen & Hamilton, the company's management consultants, suggested that even $1.2 billion might not be enough. This week Chrysler will announce a third-quarter loss of about $460 million, more than double its previous record deficit of $207 million in the second quarter. The full-year loss could top $1 billion...