Word: rescindment
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...Government ought to gradually rescind laws that require at least half of all U.S. foreign aid cargoes to be carried in U.S. bottoms. By shifting the loads to foreign fleets, Johnson says the Government could save considerable money-which it could use to bankroll the building of modern U.S. ships. > All new ships should have a high degree of automation in order to qualify for subsidy...
...army frequently go without pay. Air conditioners in most of the capital's sticky offices are turned on only when important visitors arrive. Roadways are falling apart, but when Sihanouk recently ordered a load limit of eight tons on the vital Pnompenh-Battambang Highway, he had to rescind the decree. Shell Oil, which supplies Battambang with all its oil and gasoline, pointed out that its tank trucks weigh six tons empty, and without them the town would soon be unable to operate its electric plants, trucks and cars...
That kind of pressure from the labor movement, which had delivered several million loyal votes for Lyndon Johnson, had a salutary effect. Arthur Goldberg himself entered the controversy, set up a meeting of Wirtz, Meany and himself. There, Justice Goldberg judiciously suggested that Wirtz rescind his demand that Henning leave. That may change in the future, but for the moment George Meany had chalked up a singular and unusual victory-an outside veto over who goes and who stays in a Government department...
...member colleges are happy with the NCAA action. sixty-three of them showed it when their track coaches offered a proposal that the eastern colleges call on the NCAA to rescind its restrictions on competition...
...words would have seemed familiar, or any of the other usual spokesmen for the steel industry. It was Joseph L. Block, chairman of Chicago's Inland Steel and the man who, at President Kennedy's bidding, held the price line in 1962, thus forcing his colleagues to rescind their controversial price hikes...