Word: rescinding
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...himself sponsored the Tonkin resolution, a fact he now loudly regrets, claiming that the President has taken the measure as a blank check to wage unlimited war without any further consultation with Congress. For his part, President Johnson argued at his last press conference that Congress could vote to rescind the Tonkin resolution-but that also was legalistic legerdemain, since the President insisted at the same time that he had had no constitutional need for the Tonkin resolution in the first place...
Southeast Asia. If Congress has changed its mind, he said, it could always rescind that resolution...
...construction industry, a major user of steel pipe, is in decline. Moreover, it seemed to ignore the growing competition from foreign steelmakers, who accounted for about 10% of all sales in the U.S. last year. There is a suspicion in Washington that steel, for one, may yet have to rescind its price increases-not so much because of Government threats but to make its way in a highly competitive market...
...underscore Heath's claim, pledging to abolish the controls that the Laborites are imposing. They promised, for example, to denationalize the steel industry if the Labor government makes good its pledge to renationalize it. Similarly, the Tories vowed to repeal Wilson's Selective Employment Tax and rescind recent tax hikes. When and if the whirlwind does start blowing against the Labor government, Ted Heath and his party intend to take full advantage...
...nation's official language. Southern Indians - speaking mostly Tamil or Telugu-rose up in a wave of riots, murders and suicides to protest so blatant a move on the part of the "arrogant" Indo-Aryans of the north. Shastri muddled through several weeks of bloodshed, finally decided to rescind the January order and for the moment retain English as well as 14 southern languages. "We have to find some middle course," he temporized. More than a decade ago, Nehru toyed with the idea of making English the official language (he himself could barely speak Hindi) but dropped the notion...