Word: rescind
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...host a very lucrative little football game called the Super Bowl. The National Football League got involved and told Arizona to honor the holiday, threatening that “if anything was done to dishonor the memory of Dr. King,” the committee would vote to rescind the awarding of the Super Bowl to the state of Arizona. Even McCain’s midstream flip-a-roo was not enough; Arizona voters struck down the holiday, and the NFL ultimately changed the site of the 1993 Super Bowl from Tempe, Ariz. to Pasadena, Calif...
...against the tax," says Dr. Renato Saltz, president of the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. He notes that a similar tax adopted by New Jersey in 2004 has been a disappointment, with many patients simply having their procedures done in neighboring states. The New Jersey legislature tried to rescind the tax but was overruled by Governor Jon Corzine...
...Cambridge Francis H. Duehay ’55, who had been leading the campaign to change the name to “Halberstam Street”—in honor of journalist David L. Halberstam ’55—for the past 15 months, decided to rescind his proposal after Harvard alumni voiced their disapproval...
...gets shot, it's too damn bad.' RICHARD NIXON, indicating he would rescind Ted Kennedy's Secret Service bodyguards after the 1972 presidential election; according to recently transcribed Oval Office tapes, Nixon afforded Kennedy protection in part so the agency could spy on the Senator and expressed disappointment when an aide reported that Kennedy was "very clean...
...added, "is to expel the U.S. and start from scratch with a new organization that will defend the interests of Latin America and the Caribbean." It's most likely a disingenuous stance - it's hard to imagine Cuba not re-entering the OAS if its members do vote to rescind the suspension - but it does reflect growing skepticism in Latin America about the 61-year-old OAS's relevance, especially as the region, politically and economically, becomes more independent...