Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prime Minister holds the real power, he added. Under a 1976 amend- ment, Marcos is Prime Minister for life...
...brink of political crisis. Sá Carneiro, who left a wife and five children, took office last January as leader of a center-right majority coalition (134 of 250 seats) composed of his own Social Democrats along with rightist Christian Democrats and monarchists. Determined to strengthen his power to amend Portugal's Marxist constitution by electing a more like-minded President, Sá Carneiro opposed respected centrist President António Ramalho Eanes in this week's elections. His candidate, General Soares Carneiro, was an obscure rightist whose main credential for office seemed to be the conservative ideas...
...state letter, from the Department of Revenue, instructs local officials "not to put off preparation of budgets" in the hope that the state legislature will amend provisions of the controversial proposition...
...many of the newly influential Republican Senators will want to go much further. Garn is out to amend the Davis-Bacon Act so that it no longer raises the pay of workers on federally assisted construction projects. Says he: "Organized labor is going to scream to high heaven, but I think we've got the votes." Utah's ultraconservative Orrin Hatch, the new Senate Labor Committee chairman-who greeted his ascendancy by exclaiming, "I thought I'd died and gone to heaven!"-is in favor of lowering the minimum wage for young workers, a proposal Reagan...
...state legislature can amend or even abolish the proposition, but Sullivan said he does not think "they have any idea how to address this problem...