Word: undo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Brady Law and assault-weapons ban made 1994 a banner year for the forces of gun control, 1995 is quickly shaping up as the year of the Great Rollback. With one eye cocked at next year's presidential race, Senate majority leader Robert Dole pledged last week to undo the assault-weapons ban by this summer. So far this year, three states (Virginia, Arkansas and Utah) have joined the four states that loosened restrictions on CCW (carrying concealed weapons) permits last year. Legislation is pending or awaiting gubernatorial signature in 16 states. In Texas last Wednesday the state senate passed...
...Podhoretz voiced his approval of recentpolitical trends. "We are seeing something verycheerful--an attempt to undo the damage of thepolicies of the Left going back to the New Deal,"he said...
...success of affirmative action that has made it vulnerable. Before the major civil rights legislation of the mid-1960s, a century of Jim Crow laws in the South and entrenched practices elsewhere enforced a world of preferences for white men--one that no mere change in the laws could undo by itself. Without affirmative action, it's unlikely that African Americans--or women--would have been able to open up such white male bastions as big-city police and fire departments. Helped by affirmative action, about one-third of blacks have made their way into the middle class...
...1980s in mergers for their own sake, irrespective of what was being merged-and even if the merger could be accomplished only by borrowing so many billions as to crush the merged company under a mountain of debt. We are still living with the consequences. The need to undo some mergers helped launch the downsizing mania that has spawned a crazy credo: companies exist not for the purpose of producing goods and services, nor even maximizing profits, but in order to reduce their work forces...
Brought temporary relief to the White House's handling of Whitewater but couldn't undo most of the damage...