Word: rescinded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dukakis' rivals for the Democratic nomination, Tennessee Senator Al Gore, who first unearthed the furlough policy as a campaign issue. The fact that it was inaugurated by Dukakis' Republican predecessor is irrelevant. As Governor, Dukakis stubbornly resisted attempts to rescind furloughs for first-degree murderers until a drive to ban such leaves through a state referendum gathered steam. By then, the presidential-primary season was under...
...1970s, Schlafly stunned the National Organization for Women (NOW) and a liberal congress by derailing the Equal Rights Amendment. Schlafly led Stop ERA, the grass-roots organization which helped convince state legislatures from Illinois to Florida to vote against the ERA, and persuaded others to rescind their support...
...economic crisis, including a severe housing shortage and growing unemployment, officials fear that public opinion could turn against the emigres. Says Gabor, a teenage Budapest mechanic: "Why should they get jobs and apartments when we don't have enough for ourselves?" With no sign that Rumania intends to rescind its policies in Transylvania, the refugees may soon become not only a foreign policy issue but a domestic political problem for their new hosts as well...
Undergraduate Council members formally protested a faculty proposal to rescind the senior honors hourly option at the final meeting of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) yesterday...
...also said that the decision to rescind Aprilhourlies was too sudden, and the AcademicsCommittee needed more time to address and monitorstudent concerns. Pilbeam asked the AcademicsCommittee to appear before the Faculty Council onMay 11 to make a pitch against the proposal beforeit appears on the docket of the final facultymeeting, which will be held...