Word: suspender
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...Federal Government has attempted to build a case against me but has succeeded in building nothing more than a house of cards," he said. Agent Friedrick had been supervisor of the FBI's organized-crime strike force in Cleveland. His statements in part led the Justice Department to suspend an attempt to indict Presser last summer and stirred speculation about interference from the White House. (Presser has been one of Ronald Reagan's few labor supporters.) Cases were dropped against two men who had earlier been convicted of participating in the ghost-employee scheme. Friedrick, who is accused of covering...
...major turnaround, state licensing boards are seizing the initiative and clamping down. Several have received new authority and beefier budgets. In Pennsylvania, for example, the board has been given emergency powers to suspend temporarily the license of any doctor who appears to pose a clear danger to the public; such a decision may even be made in a telephone conference call among board members. The board is now required to investigate every complaint and has been given the staff and money to do so. The result: disciplinary actions in the state rose from .7 per 1,000 doctors...
...million blacks, the passbook is the most hated symbol of the apartheid system. It allows the government to enforce the pass laws, regulating where blacks can live, work and travel in the country. Last week, however, State President P.W. Botha told Parliament that effective April 23, he will suspend those laws and release all those jailed on pass offenses. About 100,000 blacks were arrested last year on pass-law violations...
...dramatic return last week was made possible by Zia's decision last Dec. 30 to suspend martial law for the first time in 8 1/2 years. Zia took power in a 1977 coup d'etat that overthrew Benazir's father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Two years later, he allowed the elder Bhutto to be hanged in connection with an alleged murder plot against a political rival. Last year Zia engineered the ^ first steps toward a new Pakistani democracy by allowing long-promised parliamentary elections, though he banned political parties. After martial law was lifted, he turned over many government functions...
Last week Pendleton set off the loudest uproar yet. On the basis of a commission staff report, he proposed that the Federal Government suspend programs aiding businesses owned by women and minorities. Known as set-asides, the programs require federal agencies to earmark part of their spending for companies qualifying for the special treatment. Set-aside contracts now exceed $8.5 billion annually. Like affirmative action programs, they are an ideological red flag to many conservatives, who regard them as a form of reverse discrimination. "I am against set-asides, period," says Pendleton. "The basic principles are offensive...