Word: session
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down their research efforts. The University gritted its teeth, opened its wallet up wide and started to ship the radioactive waste out to Hanford, Washington. Days later, a committee of officials from all sectors of the University sat down to consider the situation. If anything concrete emerged from the session, it was a feeling that the problem would get worse before it got better...
...prove vulnerable on a number of points ranging from his liberal economic views to his personal life. To start the counterattack, Carter's aides gathered at a meeting with some 20 Democratic officeholders who support the President. Among those who showed up for the after-dinner session, held in the Watergate apartment of Democratic Troubleshooter Robert Strauss: Congressmen Dante Fascell of Florida, Bill Alexander of Arkansas, Mario Biaggi of New York, John Murtha of Pennsylvania, Bill Hefner of North Carolina; Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, Georgia Governor George Busbee, New York Lieutenant Governor Mario Cuomo and California State Treasurer Jesse...
Last week Vatican sources disclosed that the Pope will make history again, probably in November, when he calls the 131-member College of Cardinals into an extraordinary session in Rome. In recent years the college has been convened only to elect a new Pope. Vatican watchers speculate that John Paul plans to revive the college as a consultative body, thus restoring some of the power it has lost over the centuries. Says one papal observer...
There was one dramatic session during the summit-on Viet Nam. Held at Brezhnev's dacha outside Moscow, it pitted Nixon against a troika of Soviet leaders: Party Boss Brezhnev, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and President Nikolai Podgorny...
During our first talk, on July 9, by tacit agreement we did not press controversial issues to the hilt. Taiwan was mentioned only briefly. But at the next day's session the mood was different. With very few preliminaries Chou recited a fierce litany and closed with a challenging question?whether, given our vast differences, there was any sense in a presidential visit...