Word: congress
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...results were predictable: members of Congress cited drugs. The corporate mogul cited the challenge of lowering production costs. The conservative columnist found "granting abberance the status of victimized minority," one of the most grave threats to national welfare...
...asset of unprecedented proportions. I can provide Larew with military and economic data that will prove this beyond a doubt. Egypt receives nearly the same amount of U.S. foreign aid as Israel, though it shows no signs of any sort of democracy. The administration is currently sending legislation through Congress that will permit the sale of M-1 tanks to Saudi Arabia. Remember, the U.S. granted Iran most-favored nation status under the Shah, when our stategic interests so dictated. Moreover, Larew's statement, that oil-producing gulf states are becoming more geopolitically important, is simply false. The days...
...Congress Party has been out of office only once before since independence from Britain, for 29 months after losing the 1977 elections...
Gandhi's party is gambling that the coalition will be hamstrung by internal squabbling, paving the way for Congress to regain power...
...Congress legislators met last night and unanimously re-elected Gandhi as parliamentary leader, putting him in the position of becoming prime minister again if the opposition should fail and President Venkataraman asked Congress to form a government...