Word: abolishing
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During his tenure, he broke party ranks and advocated temporary tax hikes to reduce the deficit, a move that drew ire from Republicans and later prompted Reagan to hint that he might abolish...
...Connecticut respondents want Ross executed, in general just 37% favor the death penalty over life without parole. Being the exception may be part of Ross's motivation. "Michael relishes the idea of being the only one," says Robert Nave, who, as head of the Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty, has visited Ross frequently. "I think he knows he'll go down in history as the first--and perhaps the last-- guy executed in modern New England...
...burst 1,850 ft. over the city with a searing, blinding flash, killing 118,000 people within days and dooming nearly as many to slower deaths in later years. In a speech to 55,000 onlookers at Hiroshima Memorial Peace Park, Mayor Takeshi Araki urged the superpowers to abolish nuclear weapons. The goal, said Araki, was "no more Hiroshimas." Afterward, 1,500 doves, symbols of peace, were released into cloudy skies...
...ambition in South Africa to cohabit with a white person. It's nonsense. Who introduced these laws in the first place? And now we must praise them because they've suddenly discovered they don't need these laws. Yet if the government said it was going to abolish apartheid laws one, two, three--the dramatic impact could change the mood...
Some critics question whether West Point should exist at all. In an editorial titled "Is It Time to Abolish West Point?" the editor of the monthly Armed Forces Journal, Benjamin Schemmer, a West Point man ('54), noted that it costs taxpayers $226,190 a year to train and educate each cadet. Tongue in cheek, he went on to suggest that the West Point barracks be turned over to New York State as a prison facility...