Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hoped to take four of the state's six seats; instead they scored a grand slam and hauled in all six. And as the evening wore on, similar gains across the U.S. gave Democrats the bright view of a strengthened hold on the House, which they dominated last session by a majority of 35 votes. Probable Democratic gain in this year's election: 35 to 40 votes...
...need for reform. Iran's rich, rigid and feudal-minded landowners in turn have been looking nervously at the Shah's designs on them. When the Shah's Prime Minister Manouchehr Eghbal strolled in the Majlis grounds last week, Deputies waiting for the Assembly session to begin asked him jokingly what ill wind brought him to the Chamber. "You'll see shortly," responded Eghbal...
Gibbons is quick to point out that Massachusetts, for the first time in its history, failed to have a balanced budget this year. He claims that the Governor is planning to call a special session of the lgislature after the elections to impose new taxes in order to change this situation...
...their very first session, the Tunisian delegates attacked "some Arab countries that attempt to dominate the league's meetings." In a huff, the Egyptian delegation walked out. Since this might be admitting that the charge was true and the shoe pinched, the Egyptians returned four days later, full of glossy assurances of "our brotherly relations with Tunisia and of sincere cordiality." But without quitting the Arab League, Tunisia took a further step last week: it broke off diplomatic relations with Cairo. Why the abrupt shift...
...Social progress must keep pace with expansion," he said, "but under the State Constitution, which requires a balanced budget, a special session of the General Court must now be called to vote new taxes of $40 to $50 million." He would hesitate, he said, to enact a program involving such heavy taxation...