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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Speaker Thomas S. Foley (D-Wash.) said at a news conference after the vote that the bill would come up in September and he couldn't imagine why any lawmaker would favor amending the constitution if a regular statute would protect the flag...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Panel Passes Flag Protection Bill | 7/28/1989 | See Source »

...bill is essentially useless," said Rep. Carlos Moorhead (R-Calif.), who said Republicans would vote for it in committee only as in symbolic support of the flag...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Panel Passes Flag Protection Bill | 7/28/1989 | See Source »

Labor's decision to delay the Central Committee vote until perhaps early August was viewed as an attempt to seek reconciliation. Labor's reluctance to leave the government is not surprising; a recent opinion poll indicates that a new election would result in victory for Likud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Why Is This Man So Glum? | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...directors to manage a company's strategy. Among other arguments, Paramount had claimed that Time's directors breached their responsibility to company shareholders by converting the Time- Warner deal from the originally proposed stock swap, which required shareholder approval, into a two-stage leveraged takeover, which needed no such vote. The change gave Time shareholders no opportunity to choose between the Warner merger and Paramount's cash. But Allen found that the board's moves were consistent with Time's long-term plan to merge with Warner. He wrote, "The corporation law does not operate on the theory that directors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One for The Books | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...House vote to override the cuts was unanimous, 149-0, while the Senate vote...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Cambridge Officials Prepare For Life Without State Aid | 7/21/1989 | See Source »

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