Word: amends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stake than local issues. By winning control of the Hamburg Assembly, Konrad Adenauer also won control of Hamburg's three votes in the Bundesrat, exactly the number he needs to give him a two-thirds majority in the Federal Republic's upper house. Now he can amend the federal constitution, if need be, to ensure the legality of West Germany's participation...
...asked what Mr. Broderick's Board did, if not amend weather. "Well," said Kingsberry, "You see, we on the Board don't do any work, we just pass on applications by any one who wants to try and do something about the weather...
...Administration, which wants Congress to amend the "Buy American" Act, is working on ways to liberalize it in the meantime. One idea is to lower, by executive order, the 25% differential by which foreign suppliers must underbid U.S. competitors. Another is to relax the methods of calculating the differential to give foreign suppliers a better break, and to get Government agencies to standardize the rules and conditions they set for foreign bidders...
...June, Simpson & Co. brought forward a new bill to amend the Reciprocal Trade Act. This "second Simpson bill" was as frankly protectionist as the first. Among other things, it would have set higher duties on lead, zinc and watch movements, imposed quotas on oil imports, made it easier for domestic producers to seek relief from the Tariff Commission. Simpson avowed that under his bill manufacturers could get "50% more protection than under the Smoot-Hawley...
...Government monopoly, private enterprise has no opportunity and no incentive to put its competitive genius to work to develop commercial power. Although President Eisenhower, the Atomic Energy Commission and businessmen all agree that the doors should now be opened to private enterprise, Congress has been in no hurry to amend the laws to make this possible...