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Word: rescinds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vacation in 1976, Dean Fox proposed to take freshmen away from the Quad. "Here we go again," was the reaction of North House resident Robert Sapolsky '78. "For three years the annual assault on the Quad was timed during vacation, reading period, or exams." In previous years, attempts to rescind the 1:1 ratio and to institute the "1-1-2 Plan" (freshmen in the Quad, sophomores in the Yard, and others at the River) met with widespread undergraduate resistance...

Author: By Emmy Goldknopf, | Title: The Quad: Off the Common Path | 3/7/1978 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Tales from the Jungle | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Joan Feigenbaum, | Title: Judge Drops Charges Against Boston Clamshell Protesters | 3/3/1978 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Vida, Addie and Gene: When Is a Rule Not a Rule? | 2/3/1978 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: ERA Now? | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

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