Word: rescinded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nations did not forsee what seems, in retrospect, to be the almost inevitable occupation. Israel needs to monitor and defend the Jordan River area, it has an ultimate right to do so, and neither the UN nor any individual nations should ask or expect the Israeli government to ever rescind this right...
...requirements to air nonentertainment fare such as news, public affairs and educational programming. In recent weeks the FCC has been at the center of a highly publicized controversy over the Financial Interest and Syndication Rule, which prevents the networks from owning and syndicating their own programs. Fowler wants to rescind it; but President Reagan, siding with the Hollywood producers who now hold the rights to most network programs, has urged a two-year moratorium on any changes in the rule...
Instead of using his influence to rescind the orders, President Bignone allowed the legalisms to follow their course. He may have had little choice. Pinto Kramer, according to officials close to the leadership, was abetting top air force generals. Their apparent motive: to cause a financial panic that would force postponement or cancellation of the elections...
Washington effectively pressured his foes, known as the Vrdolyak 29, to rescind a hefty portion of the $22 million in property tax cuts passed during Byrne's last year. (The Vrdolyak 29 represent a bloc on the 49-member city council.) He warned them that if the council refused, he would lay off 2,050 city workers, mostly fire fighters and police rookies and sanitation workers. After a boisterous meeting two weeks ago, where more than 1,000 fire fighters and their families marched and waved placards in angry protest, the council partly caved in to the mayor...
Indeed, the Administration has already pulled back from some of its more controversial efforts to rescind what it considers needless rules and regulations...