Word: passingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MASSACHUSETTS Department of Public Welfare still awaits a legal opinion as to exactly when the Massachusetts bill passed by the Legislature will go into effect. As it turns out, Weinburg, a full-time lobbyist for MORAL, and her associates have suspected for a year that the Legislature would pass the bill, which Flynn began working on three years ago. But even if Dukakis's veto had been sustained, poor women could have been hurt more by a compromise bill, because then there would have been no court precedents to overrule it. MORAL went to work at the end of last...
...increasingly futile and bitter attempts; several months ago Kentucky rescinded its approval, as did South Carolina. Failing the necessary 38 states, pro-ERA factions are pursuing a bill in Congress that would extend the deadline until 1986, an unheard-of break for a Constitutional amendment. That bill may well pass, and so the ERA would, given its novel renewed lease on life, probably pass in the next few years--but realistically it could well go in the way of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in name, but did little else to support the rights of blacks. The real progress...
...sculpture Transportation, assorted stone flourishes and a neo-Renaissance portico, the 65-year-old Grand Central Terminal remains one of the nation's finest Beaux-Arts showpieces, a source of inspiration for students of architecture, and a place of sentiment for many of the 500,000 people who pass through it daily. For more than a decade, preservationists have fought to keep the terminal, and last week they won in the U.S. Supreme Court...
...Yemen (the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen) were killed. The double deaths mean political instability for the two neighboring states at the southwestern tip of the Arabian peninsula. Both countries are strategically important for they can control access to the Strait of Bab el Mandeb, through which pass tankers carrying 60% of the oil used by Western Europe and Israel...
Carter's threat to veto any bill that lowers the capital gains rate is widely thought to be a bluff, but if positions continue to harden, he may make good on his threat. That could be calamitous. Congress almost certainly will pass some sort of cut in capital gains, but vetoing the entire bill just for this would hurt the economy. On Jan. 1, taxpayers face some $6.6 billion in additional Social Security levies and the expiration of about $11.5 billion in temporary income tax cuts enacted during the Ford Administration. Unless the resulting tax increases are offset...