Word: rescindment
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...Proposition 2½ forbids state agencies to increase assessments on cities and towns by more than 4% over the previous year. The bill for the MBTA deficit pushed the increase to between 9% and 17%. Citizens for Limited Taxation, proponents of 2½, promptly pressured the legislature to rescind the rescue provisions, and is preparing a petition drive to eliminate future assessments...
Regulation. The Government will rescind some costly federal rules, such as emissions standards for pollution-prone high altitude areas like Denver, relax factory standards for worker exposure to toxic materials, and ease up on certain auto durability test requirements. The Department of Transportation promised that it would not issue any new regulations for the rest of the year...
Such vagueness reflects both prudence and precedent. Carter got himself into deep trouble by promising during his campaign to withdraw U.S. troops from Korea, only to have to rescind the order two years later. Says Richard Holbrooke, who was a Carter campaign foreign policy adviser and now serves as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia: "If a candidate is overly specific with his foreign policy positions, he's likely to run into trouble. Not many Americans are going to vote up or down on single issues. What matters when they have to decide which lever to pull...
...Technically correct; officially, it is up to the civilian government to impose or rescind martial...
...committee can, and probably will, rescind the decision later this summer, sources said. However, the administrators' contract requires that they be notified by April 15 if there is a chance they will be fired...