Word: repeals
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...moderate cut in that form is unlikely to satisfy the Democrats. They are already committed to push for a comprehensive tax package of reductions aimed at offering relief to lower-and middle-income families and repeal of corporate tax privileges and various tax shelters that they believe serve no social purpose. Most members of TIME'S Board of Economists fear that combining tax reduction with tax reform would touch off a long, hot debate that would slow enactment of a quickly needed...
When it became clear that Southern school integration wouldn't be easily repealed, the violence against children stopped. And even though the federal government then stood fairly solidly behind the civil rights movement--in sharp contrast to President Ford's carefully "balanced" statements, which are seemingly meant to encourage people to do their best to repeal integration edicts--what did most to make clear the inevitability of integration was probably an outpouring of civil-rights marchers into the streets of the South. If Saturday's march is large and visible enough--as the opponents of busing who have already begun...
Boch, who lost more than 2000 votes to Democrat Greg Sullivan '73, attributed his defeat partially to his support of a bill now pending which would repeal the law that gave 18-to-21-year-olds the right to buy liquor...
When irate letters and editorials greeted the handout, the legislature hastily went into a special session and voted to repeal the law. Angered by the sight of their own blood, the reluctant reform ers decided to gore a few executive oxen...
...hard to arouse the public's interest. Most of the economists favored a package approach, in effect putting all the bad eggs into one basket that Congress would be asked to throw out. Unfortunately, they did not altogether win their point. The Ford Administration is likely to recommend repeal of some of the special-interest legislation, but it is unlikely to say anything about the Jones Act or the Davis-Bacon Act, which has the effect of inflating construction wages...