Word: repeals
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Most, for example, favored repeal of the Jones Act, which specifies that only ships flying the U.S. flag can haul cargo be tween U.S. ports. That is a high-priced concession to maritime unions and American shipbuilders that hikes shipping costs. Most of the economists also favored abolition of numerous Agriculture Department "marketing orders." These, in the past, have sustained high prices on navel oranges and Florida tomatoes, as well as other foodstuffs, by limiting sales or blocking imports...
...Warren E.C. Wacker, director of the University Health Services, said yesterday he supports the Massachusetts Public interest Research Group's effort to repeal the state ban on the advertisement of prescription drug prices...
Ronald E. Bogard, executive director of Mass PIRG, called Wednesday on the Board of Registration in Pharmacy to support the repeal of regulations prohibiting the advertisement of drug prices...
Mass PIRG, a group inspired by Ralph Nader, has sponsored similar repeal bills which were defeated in the 1973 and 1974 sessions of the state legislature...
...court's effectiveness is beyond dispute, its constitutionality is not. The Jamaican bar association is calling for repeal or at least amendment of the Gun Court Act. R.N. Henriques, a lawyer who is conducting the appeals of the first four gunmen convicted under the law, argues that Parliament acted unconstitutionally in setting up a special court that operates outside the normal judiciary system...