Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate last week passed the Ribicoff proposal, and a sub-committee of the House Education and Labor Committee is considering it now. The House should scrap the tax credit in favor of more federal scholarships and loans...
...another took the House of Commons floor to denounce the way BOAC is being run. What particularly rankled the critics was the airline's reliance on U.S. made Boeing planes instead of British aircraft. Indeed, one of Sir Giles's first decisions on taking command was to scrap an existing BOAC order for 30 Vickers Super VC10 passenger jets for the simple reason that Boeing 707s are more economical. Since Vickers was having trouble selling its plane to any non-British airline, the move provoked an angry outcry; in 1964 the government ordered BOAC...
...faculty should scrap the joint-appointment plan, and put Biochemistry on an equal footing with the other sciences...
...House membership-age, U.S. citizenship and state residence-and that Powell satisfies all three. But Article 1 of the Constitution makes Congress the judge of the "elections, returns and qualifications of its own members." Thus there is some question whether the courts would want to get involved in a scrap with the House over its own rules-or would be able to enforce a decision...
...studies focusing on Chine. But Latin American studies have spread considerably in the last two years, and the Japanese Department has expanded with the return of former Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer. "When the new building is constructed," Dean Ford remarks, "one thing is for sure: there will be a scrap for space...