Word: staunched
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...vetoed Rostenkowski's nomination as majority whip. Rostenkowsi's golf buddy Tip O'Neill of Massachusetts got the nod instead and went on to become Speaker. Last November the whip's position was again within Rostenkowski's reach, but O'Neill needed a staunch loyalist to chair Ways and Means. Though a stranger to the fine points of the tax code, Mayor Daley's man characteristically acquiesced to the wishes of his party...
...much for L'Express Owner Jimmy Goldsmith, a dual French and British citizen, who is a devout conservative and staunch admirer of Giscard. The eventual election results did not help either. Last week Goldsmith sacked L'Express Managing Editor Olivier Todd, and, in turn, Editor in Chief Jean-François Revel resigned in protest...
DIED. Peter H. Dominick, 65, Colorado Republican who spent two years in the U.S. House of Representatives and twelve years in the Senate and who served in 1975 as the U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland; of a heart attack; in Hobe Sound, Fla. A staunch conservative and anti-Communist who was proud of his efforts to preserve the American wilderness, the Yale-educated Dominick was elected to the House in 1960 and to the Senate two years later, retaining his seat until he was defeated in 1974 by Democrat Gary Hart. Dominick was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland the next year...
...Under Secretary for Political Affairs; Myer Rashish, a free-trade economist, as Under Secretary for Economic Affairs; former Senator James Buckley, a staunch conservative, as Under Secretary for Security Assistance, Science and Technology. Several of Haig's appointees are old colleagues. Lawrence Eagleburger, Chester Crocker, John H. Holdridge and Robert Hormats, slated to be important Assistant Secretaries, all worked with Haig on Kissinger's staff. Right-wingers in Congress have held up some of the appointments even though Haig's aides are all at work as if they had Senate approval. Meanwhile, Reagan last week formally nominated...
...second stanza, Penn could not overcome Princeton's methodical offense and staunch defense, never threatening as Princeton cruised to the 14-point victory...