Word: amends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officials privately concede that the crude-oil allocation plan, which was ordered by Congress, has been an "unmitigated disaster." Simon last week called on Congress to suspend the program for 90 days to allow time to amend the system. Such a move would temporarily enable the majors to keep all the oil they import for themselves and should persuade them to step up imports. One possible change in any new allocation plan: only small refineries turning out no more than 30,000 bbl. per day would be permitted to buy from companies in the U.S. That limitation would probably satisfy...
...urge members of the International and the local chapters to amend their policies and admit women to membership," he said...
...union is considered to be no marriage at all, and canon law bars the partners from the sacrament of the Eucharist. Even so, there has been one slight softening in Rome's attitude. A recent letter to the world's bishops promises that the Vatican will soon amend a canon law that forbids Catholic funeral services -or even burial in consecrated ground -to "public sinners," a category that has often included Catholics in "irregular" marriages. The new law will allow religious funerals for those who, "although finding themselves in a manifest situation of sin, have retained their attachment...
...United Church and the Church Project are sponsoring resolutions to amend the certificates of incorporation of CONTINENTAL OIL (225,000 shares; May 1) and PHILLIPS PETROLEUM (70,000; April 24) to prohibit them from conducting operations in Namibia, and to require them to wind up their current operations there. Harvard has never supported substantive resolutions like this in the past; but because of the clear illegality of South African rule in Namibia it is possible that the Corporation will make an exception in this case...
...ACSR approved in full the shareholders' proposal sponsored by several U.S. churches to amend Phillips Petroleum's certificate of incorporation to prohibit any activity in Southwest Africa...