Word: rescind
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Leave Her Alone. Nixon also pursued the independent Mrs. Smith, who had opposed the plane earlier but had voted for it this year in committee. He sent her a "Dear Margaret" letter announcing that he was "pleased" to rescind an order by the Johnson Administration closing the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on the Maine-New Hampshire border. With cool class, Mrs. Smith showed the letter to newsmen, and blandly said that she was "very much gratified" by the President's decision...
...December riots helped create the Lodz situation. To placate workers in Poland's big Baltic shipyards, Gierek did what no Communist leader in history had ever dared to do: instead of crushing the protesters, he gave in to their demands. Bargaining personally with the strikers, Gierek agreed to rescind a complicated new bonus system that workers feared would reduce their take-home pay. He also raised the minimum wage and pensions. But Gierek held fast on one crucial point: he refused to cancel an average 17% increase in food prices...
However members of the campaign are hopeful. Phillip W. More. full-time coordinator of the campaign, said that he "expects to come back to Harvard and to rescind Harvard of its failure to follow the mandate of the students, faculty, and alumni...
...will propose that students register their pets with their senior tutor," Moore said. "If complaints about a pet are made, the senior tutor will warn the owner. If further complaints are recorded, he may rescind pet privileges for that person...
...agreed to take responsibility for signing up workers) the workers have the law on their side. The August 12 agreement between the Teamsters and the United Farm Workers that only the latter union represents the workers add strength to the moral, not the legal, arguments. So the growers can rescind the contract if they want to, but if they don't want to, they don't have...