Word: rollbacks
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...initiatives, the global-warming plan will be much more controversial and tougher to carry out. It calls for a rollback of greenhouse- gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000. The announcement represents a major victory for Gore, whose support for the measure met resistance at the last minute from Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary. They argued that the effects of emissions controls on U.S. industry had not been studied sufficiently, a position reminiscent of the one the Bush Administration took last year when it torpedoed a similar plan at the Earth Summit...
...seats in the assembly and 10 seats in the senate, providing the Republicans with vetoproof majorities in both houses. According to an election-eve poll, more than half of those questioned said Governor Florio's policies were the major issue in the campaign. Republican leaders immediately announced a rollback in the sales tax from 7% to 6%. But faced with a potential deficit next year, they are unwilling to make any additional promises...
...hasten a trend in which dozens of insurers have left New Jersey, Massachusetts, California and other states in disputes over rates. Most notably, Allstate's move could set the stage for a major showdown in California, where regulators plan to implement Proposition 103. That measure, which mandates a 20% rollback of auto and other insurance premiums, has been bottled up by legal challenges since voters approved...
G.O.P. political advisers, worried about the widespread dissatisfaction among Republican women about a possible rollback in abortion rights, have persuaded George Bush to further soften his statements on the issue. Private polls have charted increased concern among women since the Supreme Court upheld the government's right to deny federal funding to family-planning clinics that mention the abortion option. Then came the disclosure of "pro- life" comments by court nominee Clarence Thomas. Last week Bush emphasized that the party is a "big tent" with room for varied views, even though its platform essentially considers abortion to be murder. "What...
...legislative fracas has also led insiders to wonder whether pushing the salary rollback issue so hard was a wise political maneuver for Weld...