Word: abolish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...polishing that results, however, is not likely to ease the worrisome impact of the changes on federal prisons, already at 153% of capacity. The guidelines permit probation in fewer circumstances, mostly for the first-time offender who has committed a nonviolent crime. They also abolish the parole system for federal prisoners, as Congress has mandated, so that a five-year term will mean just that, minus no more than 54 days a year for good behavior. The commission estimates its tougher penalties will cause the federal prison population to grow by an extra 10% over the next decade. That could...
...addition, the budget would entirely abolish a number of key student aid programs. These include Supplemental Grants, College Work-Study, Direct Loans, State Student Incentive Grants, and several graduate fellowship programs. The cuts would eliminate and additional two million federal aid awards...
This final approval comes more than a year and a half after various student and faculty bodies began drafting the proposal to abolish the 17-year-old CRR and establish the Student-Faculty Judicial Board...
This is rather questionable, since Beauvoir herself claims the work is designed to "abolish the slavery of half of humanity," to "emancipate women." That is, the work has a primarily political purpose, and a politically passionate one at that...
...steering committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is close to approving a plan that would abolish the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) and create a new student-faculty disciplinary body, the dean of the College said yesterday...