Word: repeals
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Nixon urged the parties to move the national political conventions from the traditional July-August dates to September. His purpose is to shorten campaigns. He also proposed repeal of the "equal time provision" in order to permit TV and radio networks more flexibility in providing free time to major candidates...
...seeking to restore business confidence-he ordered an end to the three-day week, which had cost Britain $4.6 billion in lost production and unemployment payments. He also announced a nationwide freeze on residential rents. Labor's legislative priorities include old-age-pension increases, land-speculation curbs and repeal of the Tories' Industrial Relations Act, a law modeled on the Taft-Hartley Act that has antagonized both labor and management. All should prove relatively uncontroversial if not uniformly popular measures...
...coalition. Failing that a new Premier might have to resort to a one-party minority government. But the country's problems may be too much for such a government. Not only is there rampant inflation, widespread unemployment and an energy crisis, but Italy faces a spring referendum on repeal of a three-year-old divorce law that could split Italians along religious lines...
...restrict or repeal many of the tax benefits and let prices stay high...
...Minister Harold Wilson, 57, has ample ammunition to fire back. The Tory slogan is "a fraud," Wilson railed last week. "The short answer is that for some months now no one has governed Britain." Labor's battle cry will be a "fair society," accompanied by a promise to repeal the hated Industrial Relations Act, which sharply restricts union activities, introduce across-the-board food subsidies and set up a new prices-and-income board under the direct control of Parliament. The party's strongest pitch will be on inflation. Food prices have gone up 18% in the past...