Word: repeals
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According to a Treasury Department official, the Clinton administration agrees with the repeal of the 60-month time limit on interest tax credits for higher education loans and the extension of tax exclusions on employer-provided educational assistance programs for all levels of higher education...
Volunteers distributed "homemade" signs forForbes, including one that urged to "Repeal theDeath Tax" in blue and green marker...
...Massachusetts State Legislature's imminent attempt to repeal the ban on buying liquor on Sundays is a long overdue move to repeal an obsolete and nonsensical law. Sunday "Blue Laws"--a remnant of Massachusetts' Puritan history--currently allow the sale of liquor on Sundays only within a 10-mile radius of the New Hampshire border and for six weeks during the holiday season...
Certainly, smaller businesses might find it harder to keep their stores open on Sundays, especially if they have to pay their employees time-and-a-half wages. But the repeal of the law in no way forces these stores into such a position. The fact that only large businesses may be able to sell liquor on Sundays will have minimal--if any--impact on regular week profits earned by smaller establishments...
...Scali said that when the state legislature repealed a similar regulation--known as the "cordials law"--about five years ago, only a handful of local businesses expressed an interest in gaining the right to serve alcoholic beverages before noon on Sunday. That lack of interest encouraged the Commission not to repeal the restriction...