Word: abolitionism
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Specifically, council members say they are worried that what began as an informal system might someday lead to full-fledged pre-registration and an abolition of shopping period.
Many of those at the council meeting alleged that local landlords are driving up housing prices in the wake of rent control's abolition, passed by state voters in 1994 and made fully effective this year.
The FAS status report discusses the changes in retirement patterns following the University's 1994 abolition of mandatory retirement for faculty members at age 70.
Sybert almost defeated 10-term Anthony Beilenson in 1994. He talks tough on crime--favoring the death penalty and abolition of parole--and immigration. Like his opponent, however, Sybert is pro-choice, pro-environment and in favor of his district's seceding from Los Angeles.
Jenkins, a six-term legislator from Baton Rouge, is riding a wave of growing Republican strength in this formerly one-party state. (G.O.P. Governor Mike Foster, who swept to victory over Fields last year, has a 70% approval rating.) Jenkins has been courting conservatives with a message of small government...