Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The two liberal Senators had exploited a loophole in famed Rule 22, the hard-fought cloture provision for shutting off Senate debate. Just before cloture had been approved by more than the required three-fifths of the Senate, Abourezk and Metzenbaum had introduced no fewer than 508 amendments. Each amendment...
Through this kind of legally-enforced racism, apartheid ensures low wages for blacks. The average income in the Bantustans is estimated to be about a third of the Poverty Datum Line (PDL), the minimum needed for survival. (It is generally conceded that 150 per cent of the PDL is needed...
Another major concern among Hispanics is that the provision for $1,000 fines for those hiring illegals without work permits will prompt many employers to protect themselves by not hiring anyone of Hispanic descent. At their convention in Fresno, Calif., Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers union condemned the...
Deductions for mortgage interest would be restricted, but not in a way to bother the vast majority of homeowners. Deductions would be limited to $10,000 of interest a year; at present rates, a homeowner would have to be carrying a mortgage of about $110,000 before he ran afoul...
These proposals are likely to touch off one of the hottest battles of Carter's first term. At best, Congress will hold a few hearings on them before adjourning, and take them up in earnest next year; they will probably go through many changes on the way to enactment...