Word: amends
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...super-rich dynasties to flog their heirlooms after the head of the family died. But suddenly, death is getting expensive for a much larger number of Europeans, and that's starting to attract the attention of politicians and headline writers across the Continent. Furious discussions about whether to limit, amend or suppress inheritance taxes broke out last week in both Britain and France. In Italy, meanwhile, there's controversy and skepticism about plans by the new government[an error occurred while processing this directive] of Romano Prodi to reinstate the inheritance tax abolished by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi...
...Congressman who is running to replace retiring Bill Frist as Senator from Tennessee has voted to outlaw gay marriage and to repeal the estate tax, and wants to amend the Constitution to ban flag burning. He supports getting rid of the handgun ban in the nation's capital and says the Ten Commandments should be posted in courtrooms around his state. He favors school prayer, argues that more troops should have been sent to Iraq and wants to seal the border with Mexico. He likes to tell a story about the time he campaigned at a bar called the Little...
...related to their participation.) The task force released a draft of its proposed guidelines to its 2300 membership in a town hall forum at the Society's annual meeting in Toronto Friday afternoon. Members will have 60 days to comment on the draft, and the committee will reconvene to amend the guidelines in the fall...
...desperate need to appear to be addressing everything all at once. Even as he seeks the "end of tyranny in our world," Bush would also remake the government's entitlement system, rewrite the nation's tax code, reform its legal system, revolutionize worker training and health care; he would amend the constitution to define marriage and insert Washington into the nation's local schools as never before. In May, the administration celebrated one of its most trivial, and typical, programs - the Department of Transportation's "Click It or Ticket," which mobilizes the federal government to make sure that every driver...
...gender identity” in its nondiscrimination policy. Kouskalis says the previous policy, which protected “sexual orientation,” might not include adequate safeguards for transgender students and staff.The resolution passed 33 to zero. Two days later, Harvard announced that it had amended its policy.Both the co-ed rooming and the gender identity initiatives “were things that I worked on but by no means that I deserve all the credit for,” Kouskalis writes in an e-mail. The Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance pushed hard for the rooming...