Word: repeals
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...says a lot to the students when the dean comes out and supports them.”Paik, who is in his third year at Harvard Law, renewed his call for the University to actively support a bill sponsored by Rep. Martin T. Meehan, D-Mass., that would repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell.”“The burden is on the University to come up with different strategies and see what courses of action it can pursue to protect its students,” Paik said.Harvard...
...after all these years they don’t do anything, I could see a lot of discontent within the student body arising.”In a statement yesterday, Lambda called for the University to publicly back a bill sponsored by Rep. Marty Meehan, D-Mass., that would repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.Newly appointed Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. did not vote on the case because he was not on the bench when oral arguments were heard in December.—Staff writer Javier...
...while Bush's budget includes making the tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 permanent-some, like the repeal of the estate tax, are due to expire in 2010-it counts on revenues from some unlikely sources. One of the biggest is the so-called Alternative Minimum Tax, which was designed many years ago to keep the rich from using deductions and other loopholes to get away with paying too little tax. But because of inflation, millions of middle-class Americans have now crept into the AMT zone-especially in high-tax states where state and local taxes...
...also helped establish the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL) in 1969 and the National Women’s Political Caucus...
...what are we to make of the perennial conservative call for the elimination of the estate tax, which would cost $750 billion over 10 years? Republicans have done a clever bit of marketing here by calling it the death tax. Perhaps Democrats should nickname estate-tax repeal the Paris Hilton Empowerment Project. Whatever you call it, it is an obscenity to ask nothing of heiresses while helicopter pilots are giving everything. The tax-cut obsession certainly makes it hard for the President to propose anything useful in his State of the Union speeches. His vaunted energy independence initiative...