Word: rescinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long-range cruise missiles. This would force the Pentagon to cancel its program to outfit B-52s with such weapons, stop the U.S. from deploying long-range ground-launched cruise missiles in Europe, and bar development of long-range sea-launched cruise missiles. Such a prohibition would rescind a concession that the Soviets had made at the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks...
...August, Meese reportedly urged the President to rescind rules requiring Government contractors to set numerical goals for the hiring of women and minorities. Last spring the Justice Department filed a motion in an Indianapolis federal court calling for the elimination of minority hiring goals in that city's police and fire departments. In all, the department has sought to modify affirmative action plans in 53 jurisdictions around...
Garrity will also begin hearings this week to decide whether the sewer division should be turned over to a court-administered receiver. The judge will rescind his order only if the legislature passes a bill creating a water and waste authority to clean up the harbor before the end of the receivership hearings. Receivership is nothing new in Boston: Garrity placed the Boston housing authority into receivership five years ago because of mismanagement...
...order to relieve food shortages, hunger stricken nations should remove government price limits on the food market and rescind unfair protections for industrialists and urban laborers...
...participants in the five-day conference denounced the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and urged the banning of nuclear weapons in Britain, but their main preoccupation was the bitter coal strike. The miners want to force the National Coal Board to rescind plans that would close 20 uneconomic pits and pension off 20,000 miners. About 50,000 of the country's 180,000 miners are still working despite the union walkout. So far, 817 police have been injured and 7,000 strikers arrested. As he sat with his N.U.M. delegation on the conference floor in Blackpool, Scargill...