Word: rescinding
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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...
...open meeting of the Legal Education Committee draws 450 students. For more than two hours, students and professors debate the new grading policy. The next day, in closed session, the committee votes to recommend that the faculty rescind its vote...
...acceptable arms-reduction agreement would have to be reached before an arms freeze could take place in order to prevent any Soviet advantage in bargaining. Under the sponsorship of Republican Henry Hyde of Illinois and Democrat Elliott Levitas of Georgia, an amendment to the original House measure proposed to rescind a freeze if arms reductions did not follow within "a reasonable specified period." It passed 221 to 203, less than three hours before the final freeze vote...