Word: undoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Librarian, I am cold, Pray you, undo this button, Thank you, sir. Do you not see the gazelle on the rushing waters? I know he looks at me. ("What if Harry Levin wrote the poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay?"). I am sleepy and the oozy weeds about me twist "Chirp...
...candidates have proposed sharply contrasting remedies. Since taking office last October after the collapse of Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's coalition, Kohl has tried to trim the federal deficit (projected at $18.5 billion for 1983) while offering tax incentives to spur new investment. Vogel has pledged to undo Kohl's reforms, and called for a $.3.5 billion program to create jobs. He has also suggested that the work week be reduced from 40 to 35 hours with no cut in pay. Vogel's program has alarmed businessmen, who fear that his proposals would increase labor costs...
...ADMINISTRATION has raised hypocrisy to a new political art form, so perhaps Ronald Reagan's civil rights policies should come as no surprise. While the President preaches laissez-faire in the economic arena, his Administration has worked vigorously in the courts to undo state policies benefiting minorities...
Closer to home, the Justice Department has also filed a brief siding with white police officers and firemen in Boston who have filed a reverse-discrimination case scheduled to come before the Supreme Court this spring. When layoffs caused by Proposition 2 1/2 threatened to undo the effects of a recently approved and implemented affirmative action plan, a Circuit Court ordered the departments to alter their seniority plans to preserve in part the effects of preferential hiring. That decision resulted in the firing of some whites who would have retained their jobs under the established seniority plan, and led police...
...same time, De la Madrid is expected to undo quietly some of the excesses of his predecessor's final days in office. While respecting López Portillo's decision to take over the country's banks, he may try to divest the state of nonfinancial enterprises controlled by the banks that were also swept up in the nationalization move. In his inaugural address De la Madrid said that the government would support the "legitimate rights and incentives" of "responsible" entrepreneurs. The statement was seen as an endorsement of private enterprise, although De la Madrid also insisted...