Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year economic goals. Khrushchev was still trumpeting his familiar promises-80% more industrial output, 70% greater farm production, 62% more consumer-goods production-but, significantly, he omitted his 1970 target date for overtaking the U.S. He promised shorter hours, higher pay, a front door for every family, income tax repeal, "greatly reduced" police surveillance ("There are now no cases of people being made to stand trial for political crimes") -and he breezily explained that such "incentives" would make his goals possible...
...American Association of University Professors recently got around to protesting the oath requirement, branding it as "repugnant to our traditions," and urging its repeal by the incoming Congress. The old and valid arguments against loyalty provisions in educational aid maintain that such laws single out members of a specific professional group for unwarranted suspicion, but do not ever accomplish the purpose they seek. True subversives, of course, will have no qualms about signing a loyalty oath, but loyal citizens who sign are then open to what the AAUP characterizes as "the possibility of perjury prosecutions resting on vague allegations...
...Watkins are relatively colorless, Lee's independent candidacy has the same fantastic tinges as his political views. To Lee, politics is not the art of the possible; his platform rests on promises to reinstitute the incredible. He is against the income tax, but not just its harshness; he wants repeal of the 16th Amendment. He wants to stop the draft, break U.S. ties with the United Nations, give up our foreign aid programs, institute a national right-to-work law, and halt all Federal assistance to the school system. These planks make up the dream world of J. Bracken...
...population (to 70,000) in 25 years. Hoping to win greater control over an economy dominated by French and Chinese businessmen, he pushed through an unheard-of income tax. A shopkeepers' strike and the fury of well-organized rioters, who stoned the Territorial Assembly building, forced its repeal...
...furious enemy of the Catholic Relief Act, passed in 1778 to ease the lot of English Catholics. One June day in 1780 the association met in St. George's Fields, 50,000 strong. After a speech by Gordon, they marched eight abreast to Parliament to demand repeal of the Relief Act, and an onlooker noted that they "had long lank heads of hair, meagre countenances . . . and they uttered deep ejaculations; in short, displaying all the outward and visible signs of hypocrisy and starvation...