Word: disallow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Immediately after the race Braulio Baeza, the inscrutable Panamanian, claimed foul against the winner alleging interference at the first turn. After 23 minutes of consultation with the jockeys and a review of the race on video tape, the stewards decided to disallow the claim of foul. Had the race been one of less prestige to the state of Maryland one felt that the stewards' reactions might have been quite different...
Waxing W.I.G. The federal court's first move last week was to disallow the legislature's right to select the Governor. The special three-judge panel followed the U.S. Supreme Court's one-man, one-vote declaration of 1962 and its 1963 decision overturning Georgia's county-unit system of voting. State Attorney General Arthur Bolton thereupon announced that he would appeal the decision to the Supreme Court. Acting with unprecedented speed, the Supreme Court, even before it received formal notice of the appeal, set Nov. 30 as the date to hear arguments...
...Senate bill would retain local and state gas and auto taxes as items that can be deducted in computing federal income taxes. The House voted to disallow them...
...spent on correcting the structural flaws that caused two crashes. Because of defense-spending cutbacks, there have been few orders for Lockheed's small JetStar transport, a $31 million project. Other programs in the works, and the need to cover expenses on some contracts which the Government may disallow, added another $12 million to Lockheed's losses...