Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Michel has his way, confrontation will be kept to a minimum. Stinging in partisan debate on the floor, he is conciliatory in the cloakroom, putting together packages and deals. Michel and Tennessee's Howard Baker, the new Senate majority leader, will have unaccustomed Republican muscle. In the next Congress, the G.O.P. can claim 192 of the House's 435 members, as well as 53 of 100 Senators...
Policy Review (circ. 10,000). Editor John O'Sullivan, 38, describes this non-partisan quarterly from the right-wing Heritage Foundation in Washington as "broadly conservative." Yet besides articles on such subjects as curbing federal spending, it prints viewpoints from left of center, like Senator Edward Kennedy's 1979 pitch for normalization of relations with China...
Mitropoulos added that the conference is probably the largest program meant to acquaint new Congressmen with major public policy issues, though he said the Brookings institution and partisan groups hold similar briefings for many of the 76 incoming representatives...
...squares off against Southern Mississippi (8-3). Few parts of the country take their football more seriously than Looziana, as the natives pronounce it. McNeese State is one of the schools that has sprung up in the state to steal the thunder of traditional force LSU. Powered by a partisan crowd and rushing offense that racked up nearly 300 yards a game, McNeese State should roll...
...most boisterous meeting turned out, somewhat surprisingly, to be the one in the chambers of House Speaker Tip O'Neill, a bluff Democratic partisan who had never met Reagan. O'Neill clapped Reagan on the shoulders and boomed out introductions to Democratic Congressmen so loudly that they could be heard through closed doors. Then O'Neill took Reagan aside for 15 minutes of advice. Reported Tip: "I said to him, 'You were Governor of a state, but a Governor plays in the minor leagues. Now you're in the big leagues. Things might not move...