Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...civil libertarian, against Prosecutor William Jennings Bryan, famed as a fundamentalist orator and three-time Democratic presidential candidate. For eight days the two argued; in the end, a jury "unanimously hot for Genesis," as H.L. Mencken reported, found Scopes guilty, and the judge fined him $100. Tennessee did not repeal the law until...
...rally, sponsored by MORAL, the Massachusetts Organization for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, and backed by several women's groups, was chaired by Toba Singer, Socialist Workers Party Candidate for Massachusetts Attorney General...
...addition to proclaiming some form of "incomes policy," as Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns proposed months ago, President Nixon could have fought inflation by calling for reduced tariffs, farm supports and shipping subsidies, liberalized oil-import quotas, and the repeal of fair-trade laws. He might also have sold off more goods from strategic stockpiles. If such actions had been taken, the Government could have pursued more liberal money, tax and budget policies, which in turn would have moderated unemployment...
Shielding Children. Finding no specific social ailment for which pornography could be indicted, the 622-page majority report concluded that there was "no warrant for continued governmental interference with the full freedom of adults to read, obtain or view" sexually explicit materials. The report went on to advocate repeal of all laws curbing adults' access to pornography. It proposed, however, that children be shielded from commercially distributed materials. Further, it urged that certain public displays of pictures be banned from "public thoroughfares." But, said the commission, sex education should be expanded and improved while research on pornography continues...
...social revolution run wild, one that was further inflamed by a clumsy intervention in Southeast Asia. Nor did the science of macroeconomics figure as decisively as Galbraith thinks. The only immediate economic question in 1968 was the extension of the surtax, which both candidates promised (no doubt prematurely) to repeal...