Word: rescindable
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...that, the price increases have been scattered and without any ominous pattern. Some industries, such as chemicals, have had to rescind price increases because the market would not bear them. Though increases outnumber decreases, there have also been numerous price declines, for example in fuel, lumber, industrial pumps, electrical circuits, color TV sets. The wholesale price index, though an imperfect indicator, has stayed flat for many months. The more sensitive index developed by the National Bureau of Economic Research has been rising, and the consumer price index has been rising steadily too - but at a pace that economists consider normal...
...exam. In New York, for example, it is a 14-hour grind that requires coping with 40,000 facts in order to solve 192 legal conundrums of which the simplest might be: Is a promise made by A to B and C, to induce them not to rescind their contract, enforceable by B and C against...
...cast. A protégé of outgoing Democratic Governor Bert Combs, Breathitt supported Combs's controversial, sweeping anti-discrimination executive order by promising to put civil rights before the state legislature. His Republican opponent, Louie B. Nunn, 39, called the order "dictatorial," vowed to rescind it. Breathitt's pluralities fell sharply in such forget-it-we're-Democrats places as western Kentucky's First Congressional District, the old Kentucky home of the late Democratic Vice President Alben W. Barkley. Louisville, where Negroes have full franchise, gave Breathitt a 4,000-vote margin over Nunn...
...Combs is the only man in the country who went further than Bobby Kennedy on the race issue," he said last week. If elected, Nunn said, he would not only rescind the Combs order, but also would not introduce civil rights legislation in the state general assembly and "would veto any legislation introduced under the guise of civil rights if it infringes on the constitutional rights of the citizens...
Howe said he hoped the Young Democrats would rescind their invitation to Governor Wallace "if he is unwilling to be answered." He contended that this was not an issue of free speech, since "Wallace's views are well known already...