Word: repeals
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...first time since Mitterrand's election last May that the leaders of France and West Germany felt compelled to focus such attention on their common stand. Their solemn communique blamed Soviet "pressure and concourse" for events in Poland, and called for the repeal of martial law, the release of union members and talks between the government, the Roman Catholic Church and Solidarity. Said the declaration: "The repressive measures taken by the Polish leadership under pressure from, and backed by, the Soviet Union, constitute a violation of human rights and of the Helsinki Final Act, and place a heavy mortgage...
...action received unexpectedly widespread press coverage and proved highly embarrassing to Citibank and the South African regime. Soon after, Citibank dispatched a representative to consult with the Corporation and lobby University officials to relax their present policy. The Corporation responded by applying pressure on the ACSR to approve the repeal of the 1978 concession, but the ACSR proved itself more than an ornamental rubber-stamp and voted down the proposal in May 1981. The ACSR majority concluded that the University had made a commitment and must honor...
Logic suggests that one way out of deficit problems would be to repeal most of last year's largesse. Some legislators, appalled at their handiwork, are talking of doing just that. Says Rhode Island Republican John Chafee, a member of the Senate Finance Committee: "I think we've got to step in and either delay or retract some of those tax cuts...
Rather than propose repeal of the tax breaks he unwisely agreed to last year, President Reagan seems sure to urge whittling the deficit by slashing away again at social spending and at week's end was still trying to make up his mind whether to propose some new tax increases. Moral: tax breaks, once granted, are devilishly hard to snatch away...
...businesses that conserve energy and requiring faster payment of taxes on profits earned by defense contractors. The President definitely will not propose a windfall-profits tax on natural gas producers, but aides hint broadly that he will not fight a move by Congress to tack the tax onto a repeal of the remaining price controls on natural gas. Such a tax might bring in $10 billion to $20 billion a year...