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Garrity will also begin hearings this week to decide whether the sewer division should be turned over to a court-administered receiver. The judge will rescind his order only if the legislature passes a bill creating a water and waste authority to clean up the harbor before the end of the receivership hearings. Receivership is nothing new in Boston: Garrity placed the Boston housing authority into receivership five years ago because of mismanagement...
...order to relieve food shortages, hunger stricken nations should remove government price limits on the food market and rescind unfair protections for industrialists and urban laborers...
...participants in the five-day conference denounced the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and urged the banning of nuclear weapons in Britain, but their main preoccupation was the bitter coal strike. The miners want to force the National Coal Board to rescind plans that would close 20 uneconomic pits and pension off 20,000 miners. About 50,000 of the country's 180,000 miners are still working despite the union walkout. So far, 817 police have been injured and 7,000 strikers arrested. As he sat with his N.U.M. delegation on the conference floor in Blackpool, Scargill...
...especially in light of the recent Bob Jones University case. In that case, the government wanted to withdraw Bob Jones' tax exemption unless they changed their practice--which stemmed from religious beliefs--of forbidding interracial dating. Last year the Supreme Court ruled that the IRS had the power to rescind the tax exemption, on the basis that the school's stance defied "public policy...
...five-year rift, Jordan was restoring full diplomatic ties with its neighbor to the west. One of the 17 Arab nations that have severed relations with Egypt since the late President Anwar Sadat signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979, Jordan now becomes the first country to rescind that gesture of disapproval. Although Egypt and Jordan have had a growing number of contacts over the past year, even Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was slightly amazed when King Hussein telephoned to inform him of his decision. Said a delighted Mubarak: "This is a daring step by King Hussein...