Word: amends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seconds ticked down ever so slowly, but when the clock struck 0:00 and the scoreboard read "Visitor 1, Brown 0", everyone knew how far Harvard women's soccer had come. Well, let me amend that--Philip A. Buttafuoco and the rest of the NCAA Tournament committee apparently didn...
...crucial to their future, moderate Republicans, many of them from East Coast states, are voicing frustration with the rush on environmental regulations. "I think it's going to be a huge issue against some Republicans in '96,'' says Representative Sherwood Boehlert of New York, who five years ago helped amend the Clean Air Act to discourage acid rain. "[Voters in '94] damn sure didn't vote to dismantle the agencies that protect our water, our air, our land...
...ironic that the so-called Religious Freedom Amendment proposed by House Speaker Newt Gingrich takes away the one liberty it promises. Gingrich's House Republicans promised in their last campaign to amend the Constitution to include a moment of silence for prayer in public school by July 1995. We can be thankful that he has missed this deadline and hope that such a move will not come soon. While Gingrich claims that prayer in school would not only preserve America from ruin, but return the country to some glorious past, he misunderstands what America has always been about...
...prison life as awful as the constitution will allow. In Tennessee, where overcrowding led to riots and a federal-court takeover of the state prison system 10-years ago, the legislature recently got rid of ice-cream machines and cable TV. Lawmakers there have also approved a proposal to amend the state constitution, which currently requires Tennessee to have "safe and comfortable prisons.'' They want to drop the word "comfortable...
...last-ditch effort to toughen the bill, Councillor Kathleen L. Born attempted to amend it to place cigarette displays behind counters yet again...