Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hicks had brought her followers with her, red-faced housewives from Hyde Park and Jamaica Plain. Some had signs pinned to their dresses: REPEAL THE RACIAL-IMBALANCE...
Last year Billie Jean was among 53 notable women who signed an ad that later appeared in the new women's magazine Ms. The ad stated that the signers had undergone abortions and urged repeal of all anti-abortion laws. In fact, Billie Jean has not had an abortion. "I wish I'd known more about that ad before I agreed to sign it," she admits. But she has not made an issue out of the erroneous impression her signature created, apparently because she so strongly believes in the right of women to have abortions if they want...
Thursday, he too had made in Miami what was billed as a major statement, a proposed national "fair share" tax program, including a graduated social security tax, property tax relief, and repeal of tax breaks for big business Muskie ended Friday's campaigning with a walk through the Palm Beach shopping mall. As it had in New Hampshire Muskie's earlier absence from the primary battle seems to have hurt...
...banner on a referendum against a controversial divorce law that Parliament passed in 1970. In order to keep the vote of Italy's conservative Catholics, the Christian Democrats cannot openly oppose the referendum-but a waffling stance threatens their alliance with the Socialists, who are adamantly opposed to repeal...
...hypocritical, cruel and bad but he becomes obsessed by it. He attacks what others would not even think of questioning. lonesco is the first man I have ever heard accuse history of being wrong. It's a surprising idea and an insoluble problem. There is no way to repeal history whether it has been right or wrong, and even a liberal interpretation from the Supreme Court will not get around it. The question of history's morality is impossible enough to be absurd. Is the universe right or wrong? Can one morally approve of the law of gravity? Is life...