Word: sponsors
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...sponsor of the death penalty bill proposedthis year, Sen. Arthur J. Lewis Jr. (D-Boston),attributed the bill's adverse report to thechanging political nature of the committeemembers...
Known as the Simpson-Rodino bill, the reform act was the culmination of a five-year effort in Congress to stanch the increasing flow of illegal immigration. Romano Mazzoli, the Kentucky Congressman who was a key sponsor of the original legislation in the House, sums up the sentiment behind it: "Any nation that doesn't have control over its borders is a nation whose central core might be threatened." The law is based on a carrot-stick principle: it offers legal status to long-term immigrants while mandating sanctions against employers who knowingly hire more recent arrivals. Illegal aliens...
...recent telephone interview, however, Council Treasurer David McDonald said there had been a "misunderstanding" in the earlier reports. He said that the council's arrangement with the Student Production Association was not a loan at all, but rather made the council the first sponsor of the event. As it turned out, no corporate sponsors were attracted. The council will recoup the students' funds, McDonald said, only if the concert is a success...
...more than a few successful applications of personal computers to the classroom, educators across the country have been writing software to assist and drill their students in everything from Algebra to Zoology. Kinko's copies, the Happy Hacker's favorite 24-hour copy center, has been the sponsor of a nationwide exchange program in which people at colleges across the country can trade various educational software. Look for their booth at the show and then make sure that you distract your chemistry professor should he attempt to gain more information. After all, building stick models of molecules is difficult...
State Senator Salvatore R. Albano (D-Somerville), the chief sponsor of the "just Cause for Eviction" bill, supports the legislation because he thinks that the problem of unlawful eviction has to be stopped, Greg F. Levendusky, an aide, said yesterday...