Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd has kept things quiet by refusing to schedule votes on Fridays, thus inviting Senators to leave town Thursday night for weekend politicking back home. While floor action often runs beyond dinnertime in busier periods, the Senate has been adjourning around 5:30 p.m. Minority Leader Howard Baker jokes wryly that new members may get the wrong idea and think these hours are normal. Says he: "I have to remind them not to get used...
Despite Administration efforts to picture the contract as a victory for restraint, the Teamsters' fat settlement could whet the appetite of other unions in this year of heavy labor bargaining. The United Rubber Workers' contracts expire this weekend, and, says Union President Peter Bommarito, "Our settlement will have to go over the guidelines...
File away last week's impressive win over Princeton. The unexpected results that struck the Radcliffe heavies this weekend in Hanover, N.H., have put a damper on the ascent to ecstasy begun last Saturday with the victory over the Tigers...
...Harvard lights, winners of the Acorn Cup against Pennsylvania last weekend on Philadelphia's Schuylkill River, journey to the Biligin Bowl contest with Dartmouth and MIT in Hanover...
Carrie Graves' Radcliffe heavies destroyed a traditionally strong Princeton and a weaker Cornell crew last weekend on Lake Carnegie, and the oarswomen also travel to Dartmouth this weekend for a confrontation with the Big Green...