Word: rescinded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them again if the dollar needs rescuing. Any little upward nudge in interest rates, however, is likely to send the stock market into the tank again. When the Fed's open market committee met last week for the first time since the crash, some economists hoped the group might rescind September's discount-rate increase. But no such announcement came. One reason may be that the committee has too little information so far about Black Monday's effect on the economy. Without solid proof that growth is imperiled, the Fed is probably reluctant to announce a dollar-endangering drop...
...satellites, Gorbachev declared that "all ((Communist)) parties are completely and irreversibly independent." He stressed this point again in an address to foreign delegates two days later, renouncing the "arrogance of omniscience" that he said had formerly governed Moscow's ties with its Communist allies. Gorbachev's statements appeared to rescind the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine, proposing intervention in defense of socialist regimes, that was used to justify the invasion of Czechoslovakia...
Although on that particular night a good time was had by all, Judge Douglas Ginsburg still was compelled to rescind his bid for a seat on the Supreme Court. This set off a chain reaction in the government. As each new nominee was embroiled in controversy and rejected by the Senate, the administration's policy of leniency constantly had to be expanded. Samples of the confirmation hearings for the next few nominees after Bork and Ginsburg follow...
...terms of the economy and national security, the report is likely to broaden the base of opposition to the Administration's information policies, say university officials. And by framing their argument in these politically pressing terms, Shattuck and Spence provide a document that may very well persuade congressmen to rescind the Administration's policy changes...
Action on government information policy has been quiet since last spring, when Congress forced Reagan to rescind what has come to be known as "the Poindexter memorandum." The memorandum, drafted by former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, would have allowed U.S. intelligence agencies to monitor and regulate almost all commerical and academic information stored electronically in the country...