Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rent board acts this week, the city council could reconsider its policy statement in favor of granting the removal permits at next week's meeting; if the rent board members don't act, or if they deny the application for permits, then the chances that the council will actually amend the ordinance to include exempting for the two buildings will improve dramatically. And once that momentum is established, it might carry over into other votes on other housing issues...
Since 1867 the basis of Canada's loose federal system has been the British North America (B.N.A.) Act. Over the decades, Britain has retained possession of the B.N.A. Act, primarily because Canadians have not been able to agree on how to amend the statute. Six weeks ago, the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that the government had the right to ask Britain to relinquish the B.N.A. Act, with changes requested by Trudeau. It stressed, however, that Canada's unwritten tradition required "at least a substantial measure of provincial consent...
...process and that Americans would have a role in operating the planes "well into the 1990s." The document originated at a meeting in early October at Virginia Republican John Warner's house, attended by Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn and top White House aides. Wavering Senators were allowed to amend the letter to make sure that their particular concerns were addressed. "The object is to let a lot of Senators get their fingerprints on it," said a top White House official. Said Oregon Republican Robert Packwood, a leader of the opposition: "It allowed the vote changers a graceful...
...landslide Vote in favor of Question I could in the long run be the initial step of convincing the state legislature to at least amend the special provision for private colleges and universities. And for now it could scare Harvard into gradually increasing its voluntary share of the property tax burden...
...Some Congressmen have just introduced bills to amend the copyright laws to permit noncommercial videotaping. The Supreme Court will likely decide to hear this case, but they won't have a decision until next July, the earliest...