Word: rescinded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed naively incendiary. Certainly the white members of the school board thought so. John Cervase filed a complaint charging that the raising of a flag "was a subject of deep significance" to the community, and won a court order demanding that the board show cause why it should not rescind the resolution. In addition, two New Jersey legislators introduced bills that would bar schools from flying the black liberation flag-or, for that matter, any ethnic or national banner other than the U.S. flag. Said Newark Assemblyman Anthony Imperiale: "The American flag is for all men, regardless of race, color...
...outsize increases, out of fear that the board would arouse the wrath of the public against them. Okun hopes that in practice most would seek the board's guidance informally before negotiating wage increases or raising prices. As a last resort, the board could forbid by law or rescind any increases that it found excessive. It could seek injunctions and fines against flagrant violators of its rulings; Robert Nathan would go further and provide jail sentences...
...Nader, who told a congressional committee that he suspected General Motors had been given advance notice of the price freeze, possibly during a recent meeting between Connally and G.M. President James Roche. (G.M. had raised prices on its 1972 models before the freeze went into effect, but agreed to rescind the increases...
...overall authority to wheedle, cajole, crack heads and otherwise employ his considerable political skills in imposing the freeze. He has moved briskly. When the Pentagon announced that certain servicemen's pay raises would go through on schedule, Connally called Deputy Defense Secretary David Packard and said: "You rescind those raises or I will." After Texas Governor Preston Smith declared that his state employees would receive their regular pay increases, Connally signed an order directing the Attorney General to see that Texas complied with the freeze...
While the Harvard baseball team competes for the NCAA title in Omaha this weekend, Barron Pittenger, associate director of athletics, will ask the NCAA rules committee to rescind the one-league-one-team re?triction...