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House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who is trying hard to get those big projects through Congress for Carter, is well aware of the business community's concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Keeping Them Guessing | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...salesmen do occasionally act as technical advisers and sometimes even help set up the complicated instruments and equipment that have become essential in today's intricate surgical procedures. Attorney Matthew Lifflander, chief of the New York State Assembly task force that uncovered the Mirando case on a Newsday tip, disagrees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Amateur Hour | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...began the session by reforming their ways of doing business. The Senate streamlined its committee structure; it also served notice that tyrannical committee chairmen, once chosen on the basis of seniority alone, could be replaced. The House similarly undermined entrenched committee bosses and shifted power to the Speaker. Democrat Tip O'Neill used that leverage to become the strongest Speaker since "Uncle" Joe Cannon, some 65 years ago. Both House and Senate also adopted new ethics rules limiting the outside income that members were allowed to earn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Congress: Showdown Ahead | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...Tip O'Neill calls it "the greatest of any elected President for his first year in office since 1933, when Franklin Roosevelt was President." But O'Neill is really passing judgment on his own work. John Rhodes, the House Republican leader, says that from a G.O.P. perspective the House's performance rates "about three on a scale of one to ten." But he concedes that from the Democrats' point of view, "I'd have to give them a seven or eight." Overall, Rhodes' seven or eight seems closer to the mark than his partisan three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Congress: Showdown Ahead | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

Standing at Eastport's tip, you are the first American to see the sun rise on October 8, 1977. This is the country's easternmost point, tucked away where the suns and moons are never shrouded by the city's dust...

Author: By David Dalquist, | Title: The Forgotten Americans | 11/2/1977 | See Source »

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