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With the economic decisions behind him, Carter was free to focus most of his attention on the fight over energy. To improve the package's chances of passing the House despite the opposition of numerous powerful special interests, Tip O'Neill will assign it to a special committee headed by a friendly Democrat, Thomas Ashley of Ohio. Ashley in turn will farm out parts of it to seven House committees, which will be required to act within 75 or 90 days. In this way, O'Neill hopes to prevent opponents from blocking any elements of the package from reaching...
...literature, and well aware of the sundry contributions they've made outside the literary arts. The queen went so far as to recommend the memorization of lists of women writers, so that when called upon to defend the gender, every woman would have verbal ammunition at the tongue-tip...
Since 1900, women have competed in a basketball championship for Iowa high schools. (The NCAA championship for men did not tip off until 1919.) The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union runs this tournament and has brought women's basketball to the forefront in Iowa (all but six of the state's 503 high schools sport women's hoop teams...
Champion not only had a good resume, but he had friends who remembered him. Among them was Daley, who is now in Washington working on a citizens' review of the workings of Congress. Daly is very friendly with a lot of Washington biggies, including House Speaker Tip O'Neill, so apparently when he suggested that the Carter team consider Champion as Under-secretary of HEW, his suggestion was not considered lightly--particularly when other political heavyweights echoed the idea...
...Delhi, newspapers wrote of the "ill winds" battering the Prime Minister. To the east, in the city of Patna, an angry crowd interrupted one of her speeches, chanting, "Indira Gandhi, go back!" At the southern tip of the subcontinent, near the coastal city of Trivandrum, the signs posted on palm trees cried out: END DICTATORSHIP, DETHRONE THE QUEEN...