Word: repeals
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Reagan administration efforts to repeal federal rules banning sexual discrimination in the employment practices of colleges receiving government aid will not affect Harvard's policy of "continued affirmative action." University officials said yesterday...
Except for Grant, Ike was the only Republican President to hold office for two full terms, but these diaries will not be of much comfort to ideological and defense-minded Republicans. His harshest words as President were reserved for right-wing ideologues, and he fought back all attempts to repeal the New Deal. "Human progress," he wrote, "is possible only as extremes are avoided and solutions to problems are found in a great middle way." He also warned against giving too much to the military: "Excessive expenditures for nonproductive items could, in the long run, destroy the American economy...
...tainted weed caused vomiting, hemorrhaging and, in a few cases, irreversible lung damage. Republican Senator Charles Percy's 1978 amendment to the Foreign Assistance Authorization Act prohibited the U.S. from providing money or materials to foreign countries for paraquat spraying. House and Senate committees recently voted to repeal that restriction, although the Senate version requires that a "marker" be added to the herbicide so that potential smokers can recognize contaminated marijuana by sight or smell. No such traceable substance has yet been developed, but funds to promote spraying programs may be authorized anyway...
Representatives of the Botanic Gardens. Tenants Association (BGTA) met with President Bok and other University officials yesterday to ask for a repeal of rent increases at the Botanic Gardens development...
...although it is now called "privacy." Every major post-Watergate rule is under attack, with some justice, either as an unwarranted intrusion by Government or as an ill-advised restraint on Government's pursuit of crime. Reformers concede that many criticisms are valid but argue for revision not repeal...