Word: rescindment
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...official at the university said a UConn committee will meet by the end of next week to decide whether to rescind its invitation to Walcott to be the university's Wallace Stevens lecturer next spring...
...rent board voted unanimously to rescind a previous rent increase approved for exterior masonry work done in 1977 and to allow HRE to charge tenants at 22-24 Prescott St. only for subsequent repairs done in 1979 in the same areas...
...serious trouble. By March of 1979 ERA opponents had succeeded in getting five states-Tennessee, Kentucky, Idaho, Nebraska and South Dakota-to overturn their ratification votes. In December of 1981, in a long-awaited decision, U.S. District Court Judge Marion J. Callister ruled that states have the right to rescind passage of constitutional amendments. Moreover, he declared, Congress had violated the Constitution by granting the three-year extension of the deadline. Angry ERA supporters immediately appealed Callister's decision. They also launched a vigorous ERA Countdown campaign aimed at getting Oklahoma, North Carolina, Missouri, Illinois and Florida to pass...
...HJLSA eventually settled on the proper approach, once it became clear that the Law School wasn't going to rescind its invitation to Abu-Loghod. Some 150 people protested outside the building an which she spoke, some loudly criticizing the PLO's tacties not Abu-Loghod's right to speak. That shows of strength probably did more to bolster the students position than excluding the rival speaker...
...investment in job-creating factories and to increase industrial productivity. That legislative largesse enabled some highly profitable companies to reduce tax bills greatly. Now, with Congress trying to find ways to slash the gargantuan federal budget deficits, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole and other congressional leaders want to rescind some of their generosity...