Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state legislature's joint committee on criminal justice will send its final report on a death penalty repeal bill to the full House by tomorrow for a possible floor vote...
...understanding. Dr. Tod Mikuriya, formerly in charge of cannabis research for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), asserted that we have--"not a drug problem--we're dealing with a problem based upon ignorance, denial, hypocrisy, and special-interest greed." He recommended comprehensive drug law reform, including the "repeal of all exemptions from product liability laws for alcohol and tobacco," and having an assigned risk for the liabilities they cause. He also suggested a repeal of all excise taxes dealing with drugs and alcohol, saying "Sin taxes are the erasure of the separation between church and state...They create...
...stands levies only a $5 fine on persons found in possession of small quantities of marijuana. The proposal to repeal the law and replace it with a $25 fine, was placed on the ballot by the Republican-dominated city council, but lost 2-1 in voting of roughly 24,000 residents...
Although potential purchasers streamed through the open doors, Coop officials said that Sunday sales at the Coop would not be a regular event, despite the repeal of the ancient Massachusetts "Blue Laws," which until last month prohibited Sunday retail sales. With employees receiving time-and-a-half pay for Sunday hours, and no reliable information on Sunday profit returns yet available, officials remained skeptical about the benefits of the change...
...supported by the powerful banking lobby, to attach an amendment to the Social Security bill that would delay by six months a requirement that banks withhold taxes on dividends and interest. This proposal, advanced by Democratic Senator John Melcher of Montana, was a modified version of an effort to repeal the withholding requirement outright. The week before, Wisconsin's Republican Senator Robert W. Kasten tacked the repeal proviso on to the Senate's $5.1 billion jobs bill and got trounced...