Word: businger
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Before ending its session and heading for adjournment, the 96th Congress dealt with a flurry of bills. The legislators dumped an auto safety measure and dropped a fair housing enforcement bill; they dithered over whether to approve a $10,000-a-year pay raise for themselves (to $70,000) and...
Like the subject of Shakespeare's sonnet, Jimmy Carter sits, sometimes for three or four hours at a stretch, in his small private study off the Oval Office, listening to classical music and mulling over Government reports-and his future. He is making few domestic policy decisions in these...
When Sen. Jesse A. Helms (R-N.C.) finally decided yesterday morning that he would suspend his push for legislation to prevent the Justice Department from intervening in cases involving involuntary school busing, he knew he had not lost much ground in this major civil rights battle.
The Helms gambit, for instance--an amendment tacked onto a funding measure for the Departments of Justice and State--received approval in both Houses, but fell to a presidential veto. When President Carter vowed to reject the anti-busing provision if it reappeared on his desk, Helms and his allies...
Hale Champion, executive dean of the Kennedy School of Government and a former high ranking member of Carter's administration, said yesterday the conservative efforts to block busing "are just another illustration of the new environment in Congress," adding that the Republicans took good advantage of the general confusion on...