Word: repeals
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...party's greatest success so far has been in Alaska, where a Libertarian has been elected to the state legislature. While there, Dick Randolph has successfully secured the repeal of the state income tax, and he is now running for governor...
Millions of American voters may be surprised to discover on Nov. 2 that they are taking part in one of the largest national plebiscites since the repeal of Prohibition. The proposal that the U.S. and the Soviet Union should agree to a mutual freeze on nuclear weapons is on the ballot in nine states, the District of Columbia and such cities as Chicago, Philadelphia and Denver. Nearly a third of the electorate will have a chance to take a stand on the issue...
...whether automakers will be able to meet the September 1983 deadline. Meanwhile the agency is free to issue a new set of auto-safety standards, subject to court review. The other choices open to overturn the appeals-court ruling are to seek congressional legislation that would repeal the regulation and, more likely, to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...even leaders of his party rebelled at all that red ink, he supported spending cuts and tax increases that still are expected to leave a deficit of at least $105 billion. Democrats are refusing to support any tax increase at all in an election year. Some had hoped to repeal the final the President's three-year program to reduce individual income taxes by 25%. But Reagan has stubbornly refused to forgo that slash and apparently has the support to keep it intact...
...sort of political brawl that leaves the opposition smiling. In one corner was liberal Justice Minister Robert Badinter, who had successfully promoted repeal of the death penalty in France last year. In the other was his fellow Socialist, longtime Marseille Mayor Gaston Defferre, who as Interior Minister is the country's top cop. Badinter was urging the National Assembly to abolish a much-hated law, inherited from the government of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, that increased the police's power to detain, search and even check identity papers almost at will. But Defferre insisted...