Word: repeals
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That turned out to be only partly true. McGovern dutifully voted the labor line much of the time, but he flunked one crucial test. He voted against cutting off a filibuster that was preventing a vote on repeal of the right-to-work provision of the Taft-Hartley Act-a sacred matter with labor. He subsequently cast many other votes that were considered antilabor. To Meany, he was an ingrate. He made no notable effort to conciliate the labor chieftain. Typically, he said that since he had made a mistake on right-to-work, Meany should confess that...
WITH nearly as much impatience as their fathers sweated out the final months before repeal, U.S. whiskey executives have long been counting the days till July 1, 1972. On that day last week, having aged the required four years, the first batch of light whiskey-a new kind of spirit that goes down more smoothly and has less flavor than bourbon or rye-could legally be brought out of the barrel and bottled for sale. Distillers passed the years of waiting by copywriting names and dreaming up different recipes for some 50 new brands. Yet when the big day finally...
...Since when is the killing of innocent babies immoral only in the eyes of Roman Catholics? When vetoing the New York abortion law repeal, Governor Rockefeller remarked: "I do not believe it right for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society." His gratuitous statement is a slur not only on Roman Catholics but also on all people of compassion-Protestants, Jews, and those of no particular faith -who saw the present New York State abortion law for what it really is: legalized murder...
...modest property tax of $1.35 per $1,000 of assessed value. The town happens to own its own 19-mile railway connection to the main line, and makes so much money from it that the city council thought they would give the citizens a break. They proposed a repeal of the property tax. For this benevolent gesture Mayor William P. Holtsclaw was roundly opposed at a Chamber of Commerce meeting and even upbraided on the street. Said the bewildered mayor: "Most of the folks thought that people ought to pay something for the services they receive. They thought they would...
...added, "we reject as a declaration of bankruptcy" any idea that the Government cannot cut spending enough to balance the budget at full employment.* The Administration has prepared a list of 110 social programs enacted under Lyndon Johnson's Great Society that Ehrlichman called "fit for repeal." He named only one: the $450 million-a-year Model Cities program of building showcase neighborhoods in blighted urban areas. Brookings estimated that the Great Society programs have increased federal spending by $34 billion a year. If such programs are to be continued, Ehrlichman implied, they will have to be financed...