Word: repeals
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...under this year. One reason for the shake-out is that the high cost of attracting deposits has forced banks to seek higher-paying, and thus riskier, loan ventures. What bankers think they need to survive amid the financial-services hurly-burly is even more deregulation, namely the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, the Depression-era law that forbids them to underwrite securities. Opposing that proposal are Wall Street's investment bankers, who would prefer to keep the business to themselves; they claim that commercial bankers would get in over their heads if they were allowed such privileges...
...groups. Party Leader Neil Kinnock, eager to soften Labor's radical image, is in no mood to bow to such demands. Nonetheless, Black Sections leaders have turned up the heat. At their fourth annual conference last March in Nottingham -- from which white journalists were banned -- delegates called for the repeal of Britain's immigration controls. They also drafted a statement describing the police as a "force of intimidation" in local housing projects and demanding an "end to their dubious presence in the schools...
That prospect could lead to more boycotting of Florida's convention spots. A meeting of the American Advertising Federation will go on next month at Disney World because it is too late to reschedule. But the AAF said it would turn the meeting into a protest rally to urge repeal...
...repeal move started in December, when Robert Stackelbeck could not get Merrimack police to arrest his estranged wife's boss, whom he accused of having an affair with his wife. So Stackelbeck gathered evidence and filed a citizen's complaint, the first adultery charge in the state since 1950. His wife's lover was later arraigned and is now awaiting trial. The ruckus made lawmakers look skeptically at the anachronistic law. "You could go so far as to say adultery is wrong," said Republican Representative Michael Jones, author of the decriminalization bill. "But it's not the sort of wrong...
...leading figure of the National Religious Party, the political vehicle of moderate Orthodox Judaism, favors a proposal that the Reform, Orthodox and Conservative branches in North America help solve Israel's conversion problem by forming a joint rabbinical court. One condition: Reform would have to repeal its 1983 innovation, which recognizes as Jews children of gentile mothers...