Word: overturning
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...lawns. Half a dozen town clerks quit rather than grant licenses to gay couples. Five state legislators who supported civil unions were defeated at the polls. But other civil-union proponents, such as Governor Howard Dean, survived, and the Take Back Vermont campaign eventually fizzled. Efforts by opponents to overturn the law have failed...
...good when you're running for President, but he knows now can be bad when you're sitting in the Oval Office. Bush last week ventured into the foreign policy arena, armed with the bluntness that is key to both his image and his personality, and appeared to overturn decades of finely honed policy toward Taiwan and China...
...good when you're running for President, but he knows now can be bad when you're sitting in the Oval Office. Bush last week ventured into the foreign policy arena, armed with the bluntness that is key to both his image and his personality, and appeared to overturn decades of finely honed policy toward Taiwan and China...
...that the federal Controlled Substances Act doesn't bar Oregon's use of drugs for mercy killing. If he does, the case will go to court. During his campaign, President Bush said he would sign a proposed law preventing doctors from using drugs to intentionally kill, which would effectively overturn the Oregon...
...title - National - has a whiff of federal control. But without it, education experts say, it is virtually impossible to develop meaningful performance comparisons among the states. Watering down the NAEP and testing provisions is "disastrous and takes away the heart and spirit of the legislation and the ability to overturn the status quo," says Kelly Amis, program director of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, a conservative-leaning research group that supports measures such as charter schools and vouchers. "We will be left with the same old story...