Word: upper
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Dole's election was also evidence that the Republicans want a leader who can bring a firm hand to the upper chamber, which has grown increasingly unruly in recent years. Within hours of his election, Dole served notice that he intended to get tough on Capitol Hill. "I do believe we spend a lot of time doing very little, and that may be an understatement," he said. "If we really want the discipline, I'm willing to help provide it." The next day, Republican Dan Quayle of Indiana, head of a special bipartisan committee studying Senate procedures...
Strapped in the passenger seats were 72 dummies, including an infant-size one. Thirteen of the dummy passengers were fitted with sensors on the forehead, upper chest and pelvis to chart the effect of G forces on the bodies of crash victims...
HOSPITALIZED. John C. Stennis, 83, Mississippi Democratic Senator and dean of the upper house who eleven years ago survived a mugger's bullet; in satisfactory condition after the amputation of his left leg at the thigh because of an inoperable malignant tumor; at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington...
Police took into custody Emmanuel Torres, whom they identified as the son of the superintendent of the building in which Isenberg lived. He is reported to have lived in the Upper West Side building before moving to his current residence in the Bronx...
...York City police have launched an intensive investigation into the stabbing death of Caroline R. Isenberg '84, a Harvard graduate who was murdered in her Upper West Side apartment building early Sunday morning...