Word: repeals
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Nancy Payton, analyst for the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals spoke in favor of the repeal of the pound seizure...
Question 4 on tomorrow's ballot lets voters ratify or repeal those raises. If they are rescinded. the legislature seems likely to give itself another pay increase; the only unknown would be its size...
...seems to be undergoing another conversion. His rhetoric has become more muted, his tone less bellicose. On domestic affairs he has changed his mind about the federal bailout of Chrysler and loan guarantees for New York City (he is now for both) and disavows any thought of asking for repeal of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act. Such moderation of views, aides insist, is consistent with his record as Governor of California from 1967 to 1974. In Sacramento he once went along with a tax change after proclaiming himself embedded "in concrete" against it. He sometimes brings that...
Faced with such rhetoric, Preyer has lately loosened the gloves. Calling Johnston a "member of the radical right," Preyer says, "He wants to repeal the 20th century. What I'm concerned about is the 21st. "Johnston has quickly turned the phrase to his own advantage. Sure he is a radical, says Johnston, "the right radical...
...forces finally prevailed in 1886; when the no-license bill finally passed, there were 122 saloons in the city. all of which were closed down. And there was no legal liquor in the city again until the repeal of the volstead Act in 1933. Of course, that doesn't mean Cantabrigians stayed studiously sober in the 50-year interval. As a history of Cambridgeport mentions, the no-license law "does not mean that there is not drinking going on. Liquor is still to be procured. Many drug stores are regular purveyors, and it is practically possible for any person familiar...