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Senate Democrats blocked a sweeping G.O.P. overhaul of the nation's health, safety and environmental laws that seeks to curtail the rulemaking powers of agencies and expand the ability of businesses to challenge regulations. Majority leader Bob Dole failed to muster enough votes to cut off debate, forcing him to shelve the key G.O.P. Contract measure...
...profit groups. Following other reports that the NRA has run in the red since 1991 with a cumulative deficit of some $60 million, at least one NRA contractor is reviewing Dun & Bradstreet's four-page evaluation. Other banks and contractors might do the same, which according to Nesbitt, might curtail NRA operations...
Right now changes are reportedly being considered which would curtail overtime hours for police. Under such a plan, if an officer called in sick, a replacement would not be called and another officer would be given double the area to patrol...
...middle of the 6th century A.D., the Roman Emperor Justinian I outlawed no-fault divorce in his famous Digest. For hundreds of years before that action, Romans had both divorce for cause and no-fault divorce. Justinian, as a good Christian, felt that it was his duty to curtail the loose practice of divorce and thereby bring law into closer conformity with the Gospels. The Romans, many of whom at that time were not Christians, were so incensed that Justin II repealed the divorce prohibition less than a year after his predecessor's death...
...other two petitions addressed specific cases of women's human rights violations in Indonesia and the Sudan. According to Zaidi, the signed petitions will be sent to the respective governments, urging them to curtail human rights violations...