Word: abolishing
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...seems patently absurd to abolish a method which has so many counts in its favor as has the lecture system. Moreover, there may well in small group teaching, for old Martin observes "Maybe it do well to have only small obsession with method grows, Chicago method, or with the method or with the Columbia Group dynamics can become a grown thing. You can forget what doing and what you are committed...
Although the delegates approved statements supporting the President's program on medical care for the aged and condemning the "reverse freedom ridden" of Southern White Citizens' Councils, there was considerable opposition to a proposal to abolish the Governor's Executive Council...
Peabody also wants to abolish the Governor's Council, which presently must approve nearly every action the governor takes. This venerable institution, established in the 18th century, was devised by the colonists to restrict the authority of royal governors...
Last fall, Plan "E" and PR won by only a few hundred votes, after a desperate campaign to abolish the system nearly succeeded. PR, which allows voters to rank their choices for City Council in descending order of preference, insures minority representation, but has constantly lost popularity during the past few years...
...Senate had resigned itself to a few more days of filibuster when suddenly there came a stillness-and then it was all over before anyone could say Appomattox. By a vote of 77-16, the Senate approved a constitutional amendment to abolish the poll tax for voting in federal elections...