Word: whips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...market. But U.S. health care bills do not have to shoot up as rapidly as they are doing now. The big question is whether doctors, hospital administrators, insurers and employers can devise ways to bring the public the benefits of technology at an affordable price, without a federal whip being held over them...
...Democratic leaders had shrewdly calculated just the right amount of spending that a majority of the party would tolerate before the package fell apart. Explained House Democratic Whip John Brademas: "The liberals are unhappy because they didn't get as much as they want. We take the position that if the resolution is voted down, the consequence will be not more money, but less. We've got a lot of new guys who are antsy. We had to keep them on board. Peer pressure had its effect. They're not a bunch of irresponsible knotheads...
...Force can barely find enough planes to accommodate all the members of Congress heading for distant parts of the world during the Easter recess. House Speaker Tip O'Neill is leading one group to Ireland; House Whip John Brademas is taking another to the Soviet Union. Members of the House Narcotics Committee are on their way to sunny Colombia. So many Congressmen are traveling to China that a quorum call might just succeed in Peking. The Easter recess, in fact, is turning out to be considerably more lively than the session, which so far has set a record unmatched...
...home, Tommy's gifts seemed evident enough. He did not begin talking until age two, but then he spoke in com plete sentences. He was soon memorizing advanced charts of human anatomy, and could whip his grandfather at chess at age four. But at school Tommy produced conflicting est results (once scoring low in mathematical ability, later achieving a very high score). Teachers frequently complained about his short attention span, and sent him to stand out in the hall to keep him from distracting the other children. Because of his undisciplined be havior, he was at first denied admittance...
...Firsch regained his concentration. He broke Krevolin's serve, took his own serve despite Krevolin's dubious "out" call on a serve that closely resembled an ace, and proceeded to whip off four more games...