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Despite his party's six-seat majority in the Senate, Pennsylvania Republican John Heinz predicts that "the compromise is not going to be an easy sell." Warns Democrat James Sasser of Tennessee: "I would see almost no bipartisan support." Even if Dole can keep all his colleagues in line, which is by no means certain, the plan faces a more formidable obstacle: the Democrats have a 69-seat majority in the House, where there is strong sentiment to preserve domestic programs and hold the military to zero growth. Despite the willingness of Reagan and Regan to compromise with Senate Republicans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agreement Among Allies | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

Last spring he held the six-seat in Harvard's first freshman heavyweight boat, the eight that won its event at the Royal Henley Regatta in London in July the only American winners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jamie Hanson | 10/22/1983 | See Source »

...meter race was really won in the first quarter Harvard was more aggressive at the start, staking out a six-seat lead after 500 meters. In the last two-third of the course water conditions were appreciably water conditions were appreciably worse, making a Brown surge more difficult, especially against the consistency of Harvard's 35 strokes per minute...

Author: By Marco L. Quazzo, | Title: Oarsmen Storm Past Brown; MIT Upsets Lights | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...Gallegos I was put aboard a six-seat air force Turbo Commander bound for Comodoro Rivadavia. It was jammed with commuting army officers. There were no buenos dias, no smiles. Just two hours of their staring impassively at the American passenger. Their looks said they assumed I was there because I had done something wrong, something against them and their country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Falklands: You Ought to Be Shot | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

...rocky race, but everybody pulled their hardest--the boat really came together." J.V. six-seat Betsy Harper said, and three-seat Natalie Roe agreed. "The gain of owing was definitely worth the pain when you have a race like today," she said...

Author: By Peter G. Wilcox, | Title: Crews Take Second, Fourth at Sprints | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

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