Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House Judiciary Committee is currently considering a Senate-passed bill to repeal the Emergency Powers Act, she said...
...prolonged fight over a tax bill. Their leaders were ready to speed through both chambers a $21.3 billion tax reduction-$5.3 billion more than the amount requested by Ford and more heavily weighted in favor of lower-income groups. But the young Democrats insisted on adding an amendment to repeal the oil-depletion allowance that would save the oil industry some $2.5 billion this year in taxes and has long been a favorite-and, until now, well-nigh invulnerable-target for congressional liberals. The amended bill passed the House by the enormous margin of 317 to 97. In the Senate...
...Delhi's angry response to the embargo repeal was inspired in part by a feeling that Pakistan would not have attacked India during the 1965 and 1971 wars unless it had been well supplied with American arms...
...indeed approved by the states, it will go into effect two years after ratification. The amendment will not repeal any law or invalidate any regulation already on the books. It will, however, provide a basis for challenging existing laws and sexist practices. Hence so-called protective labor legislation for women, such as state laws limiting working hours or the amount of weight a female worker can lift, may be broadened to extend to men or be dropped altogether. Alimony laws could be written in terms of marital contribution and ability to pay, rather than the sex of the spouse...
Beginning this week, Americans can buy, hold and trade gold bullion for the first time since Franklin Roosevelt banned private ownership of the yellow metal 41 years ago. The lifting of the ban, effective Dec. 31, is surely the most passionately awaited marketing event since Repeal reopened the nation's borders to the world's eager distillers. In hopes of an American stampede into bullion, speculators from Amsterdam to Zurich to Johannesburg have engaged in a considerable gold rush of their own. Last week alone, the price of "free market" gold traded on the London exchange climbed...