Word: session
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...friend since their school days together. A new solicitor has not yet been named, but Dunphy said he had two men in mind for the job. He said he had no present plans to remove any other City officials, and promised to meet with the council in executive session if he should decide to fire anyone else...
That, by and large, seemed to be the mood of the 90th Congress as it began its second session last week. The superficial conviviality of reunion coloring the first couple of days faded even faster than the suntans and windburns some members had brought back from Southern resorts and Northern ski slopes. The residual climate was grey, portending six or seven months of bilious dissension both among Democrats and between the parties, leading up to a rugged election season. Predicted Mike Mansfield, the spare-spoken Senate majority leader: "It will be a difficult session...
...from the French lycee (where I'm studying Vietnamese) took two of us to a Buddhist novitiates' encampment in a pine grove to meet some young monks at work on a new pagoda. The head man invited us in to his 'prayer house' for what turned into a proselytizing session. He gave me an autographed copy of an anthology of Buddhist wisdom which he had edited. I promised to read it once I knew enough Vietnamese...
...next meeting--Jan. 11--the Council met at another late night session called by the firing five to wrap up the dismissal of the City Manager by defeating a motion to reconsider the action...
This division was reflected at the Jerusalem conference, which was bitterly opposed by a minority of right-wing Orthodox Jews who foresaw it as an at tempt to water down Halaka. Israel's chief rabbis, who endorsed the conference, even received threatening messages-forcing the sessions to be held under police guard. While firmly denying any intention of diluting the law, conference leaders insisted on the need for further enhancing Orthodoxy's appeal to all Jewry. At the session's end, the delegates created a permanent committee to coordinate further Orthodox efforts to make tradition compatible with...