Word: repeals
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...first year in office, roughly 80% of agency employees will have quit or been laid off or demoted. To William Drayton, former EPA assistant administrator for planning and management under President Carter, the layoffs are deliberate destruction. He charges: "Knowing that the public will never stand for the repeal of these environmental laws, Reagan is gutting them through the personnel and budgetary back doors. With only the shattered shell of an EPA left, our environmental statutes will be largely meaningless...
Democratic party leaders in the House and Senate should be doing more than chortling over the loose tongue of their former colleague. They should be preparing a series of budget resolutions that demand massive decreases in support for the Defense Department, and that repeal the enormous tax giveaways to big business and the nation's economic elite. And at every turn, they should be reminding the American people--who must go to the polls again in less than a year--just how wrong they were to place their trust in Ronald Reagan...
...President Reagan and the Atomic Industrial Forum are so convinced of the safety and desirability of atomic energy, they should urge immediate repeal of the Price-Anderson Act of 1957. This legislation limits the liability of utility companies using nuclear power plants to $500 million in case of a catastrophic accident...
...Repeal of this law would signal business's willingness to assume full financial consequences for a mishap, and so would enable it to "put its money where its mouth is." It would also be a sign that the industry is ready to make it on its own without this federally subsidized insurance...
...June with tenants who wanted him to repeal rent increases of up to 22 per cent scheduled to go into effect in July. As a result of the meeting, Bok asked Archibald Cox, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, to prepare a report on whether the "rents set by Harvard Real Estate (HRE) in Botanic Gardens were appropriate," Cox said yesterday...