Word: amendment
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Nancy Barrow, staff assistant to Sen. John H. Chaffee (R-R.I.), said yesterday Congress would probably amend the bill before the grace period expires, if the Labor Department study predicts harmful effects...
...solve a pregnant cadet's problems. The woman still has to go away-on her "excess leave"-for an abortion. And while a cadet may have her baby if she chooses, she cannot marry until she has graduated. Motherhood, said the Air Force, is not sufficient cause to amend the traditional ban on marriage in all the service academies. Explained one Pentagon lawyer, perhaps too hastily: pregnancy is temporary but marriage is permanent...
...position of the Government's main enforcer-caught between the letter of the law and the anger of Western farmers. As a former Governor of Idaho, where a middling potato farm can cover 580 acres, Andrus would ike to see the law changed. "We may ask Congress to amend the language of the 1902 act," Andrus told TIME last week, "but basically the true family farmer has nothing to worry about...
...ever to have effective union representation--whether from District 65 or another organization--it seems clear that they will stand a much better chance if the federal labor relations statutes now on the books are changed. Congress is now beginning to consider a series of Carter administration proposals to amend the National Labor Relations Act, making it more difficult for employers such as Harvard to take unfair advantage of their wealth and size to prevent unionization. By speeding up the process by which workers may gain the right to hold organizing elections and by placing limits on the extent...
With so many changes in the works, the last thing the automakers need is an abortive start to the autumn selling season. Yet that is exactly what may happen if Congress does not amend the Clean Air Act before adjourning later this month. The car makers want a grace period before having to meet the strict auto pollution standards for 1978, claiming that present technology will not permit them to meet the goals without driving up gas consumption beyond the limits set by other federal laws. Though Congress has not yet acted, the automakers have tooled up their...