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...August, and a curious exchange of notes took place between House leaders sitting at, of all places, the President's table. While listening to a White House briefing from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, House Speaker Carl Albert slipped a piece of paper to Democratic House Leader Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill on which he observed that the Rodino committee was now running a month behind schedule. O'Neill quickly scribbled a reply: he had talked to Chairman Peter Rodino, and the committee would damned well vote soon...
...economy were offered, but most businessmen pressed for a cut in corporate taxes and expressed growing concern about the disruptive impact of towering interest rates on money markets. For the first time, the President expressed some uneasiness that the Federal Reserve Board's tight-money policy might tip the economy into recession. That, he feared, might prompt Congress to push for more expansionary policies and to pass "silly" legislation that would further fuel inflation. At week's end the President took several of his economic advisers to San Clemente for a round of conferences in preparation...
...this situation of any improper conduct. I mean by that that it is perfectly apparent to me that when a man testified about three or four instances in which the amount of thievery was between $4000 and $6000--I have forgotten--that another $50 was not going to tip the balance...
...officer levels by a staggering 600 to 1. Less than 10% of the full professors on all U.S. campuses are women. "There are spotty examples of emerging women leaders," sums up Heather Booth, a civil rights activist from Illinois, "but it is not clear whether they are the tip of the iceberg...
Here she plays a Brooklyn housewife named Henrietta, whose cab-driver husband Pete (Michael Sarrazin) is 32 years old and still trying to pull himself through college. One early summer's day, Pete's dispatcher down at the garage passes along a hot commodities-market tip: a trade deal with the Russians will make the price of pork bellies go through the roof come July. All Pete needs is $3,000 capital. He is without much enterprise (let it not be forgotten that Michael Sarrazin is not the star of this movie), so Henrietta goes...