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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year Congress was fighting back. It passed the symbolically important War Powers Act, which placed tight restrictions on a President's powers to dispatch U.S. troops abroad. It set up the Congressional Budget Office, which, together with the newly expert House and Senate budget committees, acts as a sort of economic shadow cabinet. At the same time, members of Congress developed a new self-confidence and a sense that sound policy can?and should?originate on Capitol Hill as well as in the White House...
...then reaching for an other bourbon to ease the long, low ache that comes from knowing a great man is gone. Had Hubert, like Tom Sawyer, been able to sneak under the back pews at his own services and witness the proceedings (and, who knows, he might have - he sort of believed in those things), he would have swelled in the wonderment of tribute. But then he would have tip toed around and bussed Muriel, winked at his friends and told everybody to wait a minute. A few tears, O.K., he appreciated that. But what a lucky...
Along with other U.S. makers, Andros has petitioned the Government for some sort of relief, in the form of either import quotas or higher tariffs. But CB sets were not covered by the U.S.-Japan trade agreement signed in Tokyo last week by Special Trade Representative Robert Strauss. Moreover, such restrictions are opposed by other firms in the industry like Fort Worth-based Tandy Corp., which imports large numbers of CB radios and sells them through its Radio Shack retail outlets...
...verbal and quantitative scores were correct," Smith said. "But when those were combined to make the composite score, some sort of miscalculation was made...
...government spokesman] pops up to sell South African soap abroad," he told McWhirter last week, "they'll have to deal with me on the same platform." Until recently. Woods added, "I had gone along with the belief that South African politics should be left to South Africa to sort out. But I am now convinced that these outrages are the responsibility of people everywhere...