Word: rescinded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Approximately 15 percent of animals used at the Health Sciences Division--which includes the medical, dental, and nursing schools--are affected under the NIH's action to rescind $75 million in funding...
...thought first of the teacher and her children -- her own and her students. One wanted to snatch them away from the sight and rescind the thing they had seen. But the moment was irrevocable. Over and over, the bright extinction played on the television screen, almost ghoulishly repeated until it had sunk into the collective memory. And there it will abide, abetted by the weird metaphysics of videotape, which permits the endless repetition of a brute finality...
...sponsors of Question 2 wish to extend rent control to those small properties, even when owner-occupied, then the original law should be amended to rescind the exemption for owner-occupants...
Early in the game, Crimson Co-Captain Ann Baker lined the ball into the net for what seemed to be a sure goal--only to have the ref call the booters offsides, rescind the tally, and set the stage for an eventual 3-0 Princeton victory...
...ambitious exchange is a world conference on hunger being held in Bombay in 1978. By this device, Hare introduces a second spokesman on behalf of the Third World, a Senegalese diplomat (Ving Rhames) who voices the helpless rage of mendicant nations forced to accept aid on conditions that effectively rescind their hard-won independence. All three polemicists are superbly played as variations on a theme of personal dignity...