Word: undoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Currently, Congress thrives on compromise and give and take. And when the President either signs or vetoes a bill, he accepts or rejects all of the compromises made. But under the line-item plan, the President can undo and nullify compromises as he wishes. Suppose, for example, that liberal and conservative congressmen compromise on a spending bill, while a liberal president is in office. The President will, of course, veto the conservative provisions of the bill but will leave intact the bill's liberal aspects. The resulting law, bearing only partial resemblance to the measure which Congress originally passed...
...Reducing the danger of accidents by, for example, fitting nuclear weapons with special locks that only presidential authorization could undo...
Mayor Edward Koch, who lighter the wall, told the veterans, "What was do here tonight begins to undo the terrible injustice.... We have opened the eyes of a new generation to the lessons of the past...
...last month from exile in the U.S. But because Kim has 17 1/2 years left on a suspended 20-year sentence for sedition, he remains prohibited from engaging in politics. Thus Kim Young Sam may well outpace him as the future leader of the opposition, unless Chun chooses to undo the sedition verdict. For now the President seems unwilling to go that far or to agree to a call by the two Kims for a "dialogue" between the opposition and the government. Nonetheless, by ending the ban, a vestige of the period of martial law that followed the assassination...
...trying to undo the problems of he public schools, thought, reformers threaten to introduce a new conformity in elementary and secondary education. The era in education that created Westside Alternative School is associated with a permissiveness and a quest for relevance that demolished intellectual rigor Projects that emphasized progressive education open condors, community schools, alternative or school-within-a-school programs--are being phased but their students directed back into mainstream education. When school boards consider projects beyond improvement of the local school, they reflect the values of 1980s material culture rather than free thought: the Los Angeles Board...