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There is no certainty that it can pass, however, and so the commission may after all expire on schedule by month's end. If so, it will die mute. Since a quorum of four is needed to transact any business, the three commissioners remaining after last week's firings cannot even convene an official meeting. Nor, among other things, can they even formally issue a report, drafted in October, that complains that the Administration's budget and staff cuts have hamstrung the enforcement of equal rights laws...
...happy-go-lucky student, I enjoy the proliferation of eateries and record stores until I need to transact some "real life" business--that I usually save for trips home. But how must it feel to live here and watch your neighborhood optometrist, or vacuum repairman clear out to make way or yet another video arcade...
Whether the mayor's race is to be settled before the end of the month, or whether it will grind on into April, depends largely on the behind-the-scenes caucuses. But even if they do keep balloting until April, they'll be able to transact their regular business without interference. It was only after the marathon session of '48 that the council agreed that it could move other business before it found a new mayor. During that long winter of '48, while the council fished for a mayor, it "couldn't do anything," Crane remembers, "except maybe pass...
With that, everyone sat down around a coffee table to watch the Watergate segment of the news. Finally Edmisten said, "Well, look, I guess we ought to transact our business." He presented the committee's two subpoenas. Garment laboriously read the documents, then passed them to Wright, who also read them. Finally, as Edmisten and the others shook hands to go, Wright asked: "You don't happen to have one of those paperback Constitutions that Sam Ervin uses all the time, do you?" He was referring to the blue-covered Constitutions that Ervin passes out to constituents. Edmisten...
...husband has been missing in action since 1968, McLin researched the problems. He found that Florida laws provided for situations in which a spouse is dead, mentally incompetent or absent by his own volition. There was no category for absent U.S. servicemen. As a result, wives who wanted to transact important family business were often helpless if their husbands had full or partial title to the property involved...