Word: undo
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PRESIDENT CLINTON MAY HAVE WEASELED ON SOME of his campaign promises, but not his pledge to liberalize Washington's attitude toward abortion. Last week the White House unveiled two more proposals. One would undo the Hyde amendment, the 16-year-old ban on federal financing of abortions for poor women through Medicaid; the other would permit federal aid to international population- control groups that provide or pay for abortions...
Most important, lawmakers in both parties warned that raising the top rates on individuals and businesses threatens to undo one of the singular accomplishments of the '80s: the 1986 tax-reform act. Apart from simplicity and fairness, the theory behind keeping rates low and loopholes closed was to encourage people and corporations to focus on business opportunities rather than on how to avoid taxes. Economists warned that many investors will scramble for tax shelters and tax-free bonds or move their money abroad. Corporations will head back into debt to reduce their taxable profits. Offering tax credits to small businesses...
When it came to forging Soviet power, Joseph Stalin and his successors more than fulfilled their plan. Now Boris Yeltsin and, presumably, his successors have to undo it. The country simply cannot afford such oversize armed forces, and the civilian economy desperately needs the money, talent and productive power locked inside the military-industrial complex. But demobilizing on such a scale poses an especially Herculean challenge to a country that barely has a functioning economy and has no national consensus on how cutting down the troops, the arsenal and the production lines ought to occur...
...front has no coherent program -- except to undo what Yeltsin has done -- only skill at demagoguery. Nationalists like Nikolai Lysenko shift the blame to old enemies: "The U.S. planned and engineered the collapse of the Soviet Union." Front leaders call on the citizenry to "rise in defense of the Russian state" and force the President out. "Their strategy," says a U.S. official, "is to invoke slogans in an attempt to excite the baser political instincts." But in championing causes like the troubles of Russian nationals in the other republics, front leaders have potent emotional issues with which to stir...
...audience, however, watched the drama unfold and braced for the repercussions. The great churches of Eastern Orthodoxy were silently dismayed. The Vatican looked on with alarm, having vowed that Catholicism would never accept women for ordination. The decision in London sealed the fate of a 22-year effort to undo King Henry's legacy and reunite the Anglican and Catholic churches. "The problem of the admission of women to the ministerial priesthood," declared a Vatican spokesman, "touches the very nature of the sacrament of priestly orders. This decision by the Anglican Communion constitutes a new and grave obstacle...