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Rogers said the board's decision was prompted by its consensus that women members and the AAAS in general would be "uncomfortable" if it met in a state that has not ratified the amendment...
Carter's Executive order on intelligence is intended to restore this balance and confidence. The President said that his reorganization directive was the product of the most extensive and highest-level review ever conducted. Just under a year in the making, the order expresses a rough consensus among the intelligence and defense communities, the White House and Congress...
...place within a period of 14 weeks or less-from the second Tuesday in March to the second Tuesday in June. That would delay, and downgrade in symbolic importance, Iowa's January delegate caucus, where Jimmy Carter first won national attention in 1976. To help build a party consensus, the commission further recommended that no candidate be awarded convention delegates unless he had received at least 15% of the vote cast in caucuses or state elections during the first third of the primary period; in the second third, the ante would be raised to 20%, and in the season...
...that have plagued the convention so far can be attributed to a lack of communication among the various House delegations, and between these delegations and existing student-faculty committees. But Calabrese says this problem has now been eliminated. "There is a much greater amount of communication and a greater consensus now about what we are trying to accomplish," he says. "The disagreements between various factions are beginning to fade away. I'm confident that we won't let trivial things hold us back now. I think we can produce a constitution within seven weeks...
...convention delegates seem to agree that the progress made in the past few meetings indicates that the ideological divisions among members of the convention have faded, if not vanished entirely. The more pessimistic delegates see this progress as merely temporary, but the more hopeful assert that the convention's consensus will hold up during the next few meetings. Despite the different forecasts by convention members about the chances of success, almost all delegates seem to agree on what the crucial issues...