Word: rescinded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Partisans of greater democracy in China, however, had little cause for optimism. Purges of intellectuals continued. An ideological campaign gathered force to rescind many of the political and economic freedoms permitted recently by Hu Yaobang, the Communist Party's General Secretary, removed from his post two weeks ago and replaced by Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang. With Fang Lizhi and Author Wang Ruowang already tossed out of the party for advocating "bourgeois liberalism," the purge turned last week to the president and vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who were removed from office. They had been responsible...
...wife and he has commiserated, grinning wryly, about your college-age kids. Then, wandering to the possibility of hostilities with the Soviets, he guesses that it would be cheaper and more devastating to drop money on them, not bombs. And Congress, he goes on, Congress should have to rescind some old law every time it passes a new one, to make room. Ordinary stuff is Rooney's beat, with no verbal slickery: how doctors can do a heart bypass but not cure a 101 degrees fever, and why do clothing manufacturers put all those pins in new shirts? There...
...Soviets also maintain that there are fewer than 200 staffers now registered at their mission, well below the figure of 218 claimed by the U.S. Yet on this issue, both sides seemed to leave plenty of room for maneuvering. The Soviets were not insisting that the U.S. actually rescind the expulsion order, only that the Americans make some gesture of reconciliation. "It is a question of prestige," said a Soviet official...
LANDING RIGHTS. The government-owned South African Airways flew 100,000 passengers, mostly white officials, businessmen and tourists, to and from the U.S. last year. The proposal by some Senators and others to rescind the country's landing rights in the U.S. would inconvenience such travelers, probably causing a half-day detour through European cities. Quite quickly, however, small airlines in Swaziland or Botswana could expand, with South Africa's help, to fill the void...
...February 4, 1969, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted 207-125 to strip ROTC courses of any academic credit and to rescind the appointments of all ROTC instructors. At the time there were 133 midshipmen in the Navy program and more than 100 in the Army unit...