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...they said, "is on filling out forms, doing the least work with the least effort and just getting by." The Indian Health Service fired the nurses in January 1975 for "lack ... [of] ability or ... desire to become a responsible employee of the IHS." Public pressure forced the hospital to rescind the order, and it transferred them instead. The nurses resisted, and so the IHS once again discharged them. Further local pressure resulted in public hearings last year. The IHS encouraged them to reapply to Shiprock; their applications have been pending since last July...
Clamshell staged the sit-in to demand that Boston Edison cancel plans for construction of a nuclear power plant at Plymouth, Mass., and rescind the $23 million rate increase announced Tuesday, Garrison said Wednesday...
These players feel, not unnaturally, they earned their privilege fair and square, and no one should simply rescind them. As Bob Rosburg, the winner of the 1959 PGA, noted, "If you had told me, when I won, that I could have the exemption or the prize money but not both, I'd have taken the exemption...
...States that have not ratified: Alabama Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina Utah, Virginia. Idaho, Nebraska and Tennessee have voted to rescind approval...
Expungement, that dread punishment that entails erasing every trace of a student's presence at the College, is no longer a threat for Harvard undergraduates. The Faculty voted to rescind the regulation last fall after the general counsel's office advised them it was inconsistent with state laws regarding school records. Expungement as they say, was expunged...