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Last week the Governor also sent to the legislature an emergency bill to repeal the compulsory-renewal provision. If it passes and insurers can overturn the 15% across-the-board rate cut in the courts, the no-fault plan has a chance to work. The legislature's insurance committee did agree last week to let insurers refuse to renew policies for some bad drivers, but insurers regard the change as inadequate. If the deadlock persists, Armstrong fears, there will be "a domino effect." Some auto insurers will pull out of the state; other companies, unhappy at the prospect...
...more rational use of land to control the country's chaotic patterns of growth. The measure not only would empower the Attorney General to file enforcement suits against local governments but also would allow potential recipients of housing aid to sue in either federal or state courts to overturn local rules. Some opponents of the idea contend that Washington lacks authority to override local land controls. Though chances for adoption in this election year seem slim, the proposal will at least focus attention on the conflict between the freedom of localities to organize as they...
...Harvard. That determined our rule that only strikers could vote at the meetings we called to ask for ongoing mandates for action. Our inability to enforce that rule-all of the hard-core strike opponents who had barged into the end of the second mass meeting (May 7) to overturn its decisions were loudly present on May 10-makes the allegation that we followed the democratic process only so long as it suited our needs more than a little simplistic...
...When the third mass meeting sanctioned only restricted tactics and targets. the Steering Committee saw fit to overturn majority rule." a resignation letter signed by five committee members said. "And now in its most recent call for action at the CFIA. the steering committee continues in its independent and unauthorized course...
...Romney likely to be the only wife to follow her husband into politics this year. Georgia Governor Lester Maddox is suing to overturn a state law that forbids a second consecutive term. If he loses, Georgia politics may also feel a feminine touch as Maddox runs the missus for Governor...