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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: 1300 More to Go | 1/23/1976 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONSTITUTION: Battle Over Presidential Power | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Aid for War Wives | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

...also beset by internal politics and bickering. One prominent securities analyst denounces the Big Board as a "Byzantine, conspiratorial Kafkaesque monster." The owners of the exchange, the 1,366 members who hold a seat entitling them to transact business on the exchange floor, have varied and often conflicting interests. When confronted by almost any proposal for change, the 33 governors divide into several factions, and the splits slow the pace of change that Exchange President Robert Haack is trying to bring about. Says Haack: "My job is to move these people into the 21st century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Change and Turmoil on Wall Street | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

...have no sympathy for those corporate laggards who transact business as usual, waiting for the governmental whip to prod them into action. If big business needs guidance in formulating social acceptance programs, why doesn't it seek out political and social scientists and ecologists with the same zeal it displays in wooing accountants and engineers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 17, 1970 | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

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