Word: repeals
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...Iowa agreed two weeks ago to join forces with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. In this unusual arrangement, the Teamsters will lobby state and federal officials for a moratorium on farm foreclosures and will provide legal aid to fight bankruptcies; meanwhile, the farmers will help push for the repeal of Iowa's right-to-work law. In Washington, Iowa, more than 150 friends and supporters of Roger Escher, 38, took a different tack. They stood silent last month and refused to bid in the auctioning of Escher's machinery by the United Central Bank & Trust of Kalona. Near by, some...
...Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) submitted a report on the subject of Harvard's investments in American Corporations doing business in South Africa. The Harvard Corporation's Committee on Shareholder reply to the ACSR report, agreeing with some of its proposals and disagreeing with other. I will not repeal all that is said in that reply. But I will express some thoughts of my own on the subjects of divestment, since it represents the point of greatest disagreement in this community concerning the response of the University to the injustices of apartheid...
...pushing for the repeal, Oklahomans for Responsible Liquor Control (ORLC) hit on the themes of being honest about the reality of how much liquor is being sold by the drink--"Come on, Oklahoma, let's stop the nonsense," exhorted one television ad--and how if the illegal trade were licensed in just 15 counties, Oklahoma could net $35 million in yearly tax revenues. "We've had liquor by the drink in Oklahoma for 25 years. We just never admitted it," says ORLC President Michael Williams, "Naturally, I'm tickled to death [about the results of the referendum]. In the long...
...plastered? Largely because the popular feeling really was against changing the constitution, but OK corraled less votes than it expected to, says Richard D. McCartney, editor of the newspaper for the state's 1460-church, 1.7 million member strong Baptist General Convention, one of the biggest lobbiers against repeal. "We were behind by about 29,000 votes," says McCartney. "Thirteen votes in each precinct would have put us in the lead. We just failed to get the votes...
...Oklahoma Retail, Liquor Dealers Association. In 1972 and 1976, the newspaper, the state's largest, published seething front-page, editorials against changing the saloon restriction. This year, however, with the son of the old publisher in his father's place, the paper ran a far more mild exhortation against repeal on its editorial page, a move McCartney says "was definitely significant...