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Word: straw (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plant will receive an exemption from the Clean Air Act automatically as a non-profit organization, unless MATEP's opponents successfully challenge its non-profit status, Betsy Straw, the EPA spokesman, said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EPA To Grant MATEP Exemption | 3/18/1981 | See Source »

...Edward J. King requested the exemption earlier this month, Straw added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EPA To Grant MATEP Exemption | 3/18/1981 | See Source »

...Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life also met Monday and endorsed the Gomes proposal in a noncommital straw vote, with 22 members favoring the recommendation, 11 abstaining and one--Kenneth L. Moya '82--voting to approve a facility geared chiefly to Third World students...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Debating the Merits of Interaction | 3/14/1981 | See Source »

...noncommittal "straw vote" last night. Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) members approved the Gomes Committee recommendation to form a foundation for improving campus race relations...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: CHUL, in 'Straw Vote,' Approves Gomes Report | 3/10/1981 | See Source »

DIED. Shep Fields, 70, bandleader who was known during the 1930s and '40s for his Rippling Rhythm, a bubbly blend of light, catchy orchestrations and the sound made by blowing through a straw into a bowl of water near the microphone; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 9, 1981 | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

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