Word: repeals
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...Japan has upped the ante: at the annual meeting of the IWC last week in the Caribbean nation of St. Kitts and Nevis, the Japanese pushed through a resolution calling for a repeal of the whaling moratorium, declaring it "no longer necessary...
...Governor George Pataki and the state legislatures to change those laws. It?s a closeup lesson in political compromise - or, as many supporters of change see it, the humiliating status quo. "The Right, they?re calling it a jail break," says Simmons, while the Left, "they want total repeal." An hour into the film, Pataki and Simmons do cut a deal, but one that reduces the penalty from 15 to 9 years and still doesn?t allow judges to ameliorate the sentence. On stage, comedian-turned-activist Randy Predico notes sarcastically, "We got a major victory, all right. People...
...development of secondary faculty that effectively has tenure.The curricular review’s proposals will plug gaping holes in Harvard’s curriculum by providing broad Courses in General Education. But if this plug is to be effective, the Faculty should increase the role of lecturers and repeal the eight year rule while it?...
...more huge protests, some of them violent, against a new law allowing workers younger than 26 to be fired without cause within their first two years on the job. Thousands of students staging public sit-ins around the country booed as Chirac, speaking on TV, rejected their demands to repeal the law, then continued jeering as he ordered ruling conservatives in parliament to water down what Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin had intended to be his boldest reform. Chirac wants the probation period halved, and to require that bosses give a reason if they want to fire a young person...
...Among those voting “no” were Rep. Michael E. Capuano, Cambridge’s congressman, Rep. Barney Frank ’61, one of the nation’s most prominent openly gay politicians, and Rep. Martin T. Meehan, the chief sponsor of legislation to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Frank pushed through a change to the law in 1999, removing financial aid funds from the money affected by the Solomon Amendment. The House resolution emphasized the need to protect...