Word: repeals
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Coleman caustically noted that under a previous chief, his department had ordered the "interlock" system (the engine would not start unless a combination lap-shoulder belt was fastened) on 1974-model autos, but that public anger against this federal fiat caused Congress to repeal the requirement for 1975 models. Coleman argued that a similar Washington mandate concerning air bags would have the same result...
Equally uncertain is the outcome of a ballot measure , to repeal a law limiting the number of salmon fishermen in Alaska. Backers of the so-called limited-entry law claim that it is necessary to protect Alaska's rich fishing grounds from being depleted. Opponents insist that the right to choose one's occupation is a basic freedom that must be safeguarded...
DIVORCE. The Catholic Church has never recognized divorce in any marriage that it considers valid. The American bishops in 1884 decreed automatic excommunication for divorced Catholics who remarried while their original spouses were alive. "A Call to Action" asked that the church repeal the excommunication edict. It also opposed any practices that "brand separated, divorced, and divorced remarried Catholics as failures or discriminate against them and their children...
Voters also recommended that the state repeal its "blue laws," which require that most stores remain closed on Sundays...
...Republican votegetters. So attentive has he been to his labor constituents that the AFL-CIO'S political action group, COPE, awards Schweiker a 100% rating and made him the first Pennsylvania Republican Senator to win its endorsement for re-election (in 1974). Among other things, he voted to repeal Section 14-B of the Taft-Hartley Act, the right-to-work provision that allows states to outlaw the closed shop. He was a co-sponsor of the original Humphrey-Hawkins Bill, which would have committed the Government to take potentially inflationary budgetary steps to achieve full employment. The liberal...