Word: overturn
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...reverse many of Clinton's 11th-hour regulations and executive orders, have decided that the OSHA rules will be their first target. Using the obscure Congressional Review Act that he got passed five years ago, Senate Republican Whip Don Nickles wants to have a vote this week to overturn the regulations, which went into effect Jan. 16. Businesses are howling that the 1,688 pages of standards they must meet could cost over $100 billion a year. But the opposition, citing figures of 600,000 people a year laid up by the injuries, is ready to dig in its heels...
...powers, these cells could serve as the body's self-repair kit, providing cures for Parkinson's, diabetes, Alzheimer's and paralysis. Actors Christopher Reeve, paralyzed by a fall from a horse, and Michael J. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson's, are among those who have pushed Congress to overturn the U.S. government's restrictions on federal funding of embryonic-stem-cell research...
...powers, these cells could serve as the body's self-repair kit, providing cures for Parkinson's, diabetes, Alzheimer's and paralysis. Actors Christopher Reeve, paralyzed by a fall from a horse, and Michael J. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson's, are among those who have pushed Congress to overturn the government's restrictions on federal funding of embryonic-stem-cell research...
...Ashcroft have if he is willing to put aside his strongly held beliefs for his ambition? He says he will enforce the law rather than his beliefs. Does ambition then dampen his integrity, or will he work with one hand to follow the rules and with the other to overturn them? Women's reproductive rights are under renewed attack. I fear zealots in any form. This nomination convinces me that Bush is not concerned with conciliation. PAT LINDSAY Mattoon...
...sensitive Cabinet posts. John Ashcroft, the hard-right nominee for Attorney General, told astonished Senators at his confirmation hearing that he would "aggressively" enforce abortion laws and wouldn't challenge the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, even though he has spent much of his career trying to overturn it. In another hearing room, Interior Secretary-designate Gale Norton, a James Watt disciple who used to champion the rights of oil companies and mine operators, insisted that she's now a tree-hugging naturalist who believes in global warming and has a soft spot for the Endangered Species...