Word: overturned
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...President's decision to support Browner is a major victory for the EPA chief, but the new regulations still face a challenge by Congress. Many Republicans and some Democrats have vowed to pass a law overturning them. Support for the EPA crosses party lines: Republican Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York announced last week that he'd fight any attempt to weaken the rules. And even if Congress passes legislation to overturn the rules, opponents would probably be unable to muster enough votes to override a presidential veto...
...commend this type of awareness-raising, and welcome similar steps to energize the campus dialogue on this issue. With the constant overturn of students and the secrecy of the clubs, only through such efforts will questionable club activities garner the publicity necessary to deter men from joining and women from attending parties sponsored by them...
Mitchell's news was read at the annual meeting of the American Adoption Congress in Dallas this month, prompting a standing ovation. The congress is one of several groups seeking to overturn laws, currently in effect in most of Canada and the U.S., that protect the privacy of birth parents and prevent their children from contacting them without prior consent. In 1995 Tennessee opened its records on all adoptions before 1951, and six other states are discussing disclosure bills. An alliance including privacy advocates, adoption agencies and lawyers from Pat Robertson's organization opposes the change, arguing that many reunions...
...Senate and 6 in the House; the group finds no other limits to tenure acceptable. Referenda with essentially the same details as the Arkansas measure have passed in Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada and South Dakota. It is not immediately clear whether the Court's refusal to overturn the Arkansas case will directly affect those states...
...would help promote core values such as honor, courage and commitment in the military. But Bob Guccione, publisher of Penthouse, saw the matter differently. Saying, "the fact that others might find the magazines offensive is not a rationale for barring them," he filed a lawsuit last year to overturn the act. And today, he was victorious. But while the ruling allows Guccione to peddle his goods to lonely military personnel, the implications go much further since it will make it more difficult for similar anti-porn restrictions to apply to the Internet, cable television and other media...