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Bill Alexander (William Vollie Alexander Jr.) was an American politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1969 to 1993, serving a district in Arkansas. The House of Representatives is the larger of two houses that make up the U.S. Congress, the other being the United States Senate. ...


He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on Jan. 16, 1934, and graduated from Osceola High School in Arkansas in 1951. He attended the University of Arkansas and later earned a bachelor of arts degree from Rhodes College in Memphis in 1957. He earned a law degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville in 1960.


He was elected as a Democrat to Congress in 1968 and was repeatedly re-elected until 1992, when he was defeated for his party's nomination.


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BDRS: Three Musicians Talk about the Alexander Technique (4630 words)
BILL: Basically young children up to age 3 or 4 have pretty good use compared with adults and as, gradually, they copy the adults and older children around them and they sit hunched up at school, they gradually lose their natural movements, and so then we need a way to get back: to re-educate ourselves.
What an Alexander teacher will do is try to calm it all down, and he will usually begin by putting a hand on the head and back of the neck to bring the head more freely into balance on the spine.
Bill Benham was a quirister at Winchester and went on to study the violin with John Sealey, Jean Pougnet and Alfredo Campoli.
Sun Herald - 04/02/03 (1048 words)
Paul also filed a bill that would make it a crime for phosphate company executives to misrepresent the ability of their company to close phospho-gypsum stacks, which are gigantic waste piles of slightly radioactive waste.
Alexander's bill also increased a tax on phosphate ore and revised how the proceeds are divvied up by state agencies.
The bill also nearly doubled a portion of the tax that is paid to the counties that host the mining.
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