Word: abolisher
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...credit card; the receipt for the billing serves the customer as evidence of the expenditure. Even in the unlikely event that businessmen are less subject to embarrassment than they expect, the card companies, after difficult beginnings, have finally begun to make for themselves what they set out to abolish-cash...
...Hoffmann admits, there is no possible alternative to standardized testing. He does not want to abolish the system; he would be content with improving it. His suggestion as to how this can be done is the classic one for a man who has searched, but seen no answers--Dr. Hoffmann wants to form a committee to study the problem...
...wants to abolish many blanket laws and consider each situation individually. An example of what he calls a "bad regulation" is the prohibition of parking on the left side of all one-way streets. "In some places this is ridiculous," he asserts. If a one-way street is broad enough, then parking should be legal on both sides...
Rousselot, in a speech entitled "Disarmament, a blueprint for surrender," suggested that the U.S. withdraw from the U.N., break off diplomatic relations with all Communist countries, abolish the income tax, and build up a nuclear first-strike capability...
Knocked Heads. In his efforts to reshape Tunisia as a modern nation, Bourguiba has had to knock heads together. Inevitably, some army officers resent the backseat role he gives the military. And Moslem religious leaders are angered by his attempt to abolish the day-long fasts of the month of Ramadan, and by his emancipation of women...