Word: rescinding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...academic freedom, freedom from personal force and violence, and freedom of movement." It further states, "Interference with any of these freedoms is to be regarded as a serious violation of the personal rights upon which the community is based." No one in the University's Administration seems willing to rescind this statement, and no one denies that ROTC proudly discriminates against students based on sexual orientation. Yet the University continues to allow them to meet on campus...
Bush's announcement drew bipartisan applause on Capitol Hill, although Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell (D-Maine) said he was not about to rescind his criticism that the president's policies toward the blossoming of democracy in Eastern Europe have been too "timid...
There are few more abject sights than that of Congress surrendering to interest-group pressure. But even by the craven standards of Capitol Hill, it was striking when the House voted 360 to 66 last week to rescind the Medicare catastrophic health-insurance program that it had lopsidedly approved amid a self-congratulatory frenzy just last year. The Senate showed enough moxie to save fragments of the plan, but it too voted to kill a special income-tax surcharge (up to $800) that would have been levied solely on the affluent elderly to help fund the program...
Seizing on voter disillusionment, the J.S.P. mounted a stunningly effective campaign. Its trump card was Doi, a charismatic politician whose forthright statements and energy offered a refreshing change from the dour-faced, dark- suited politicians fielded by the L.D.P. Campaigning vigorously, Doi and her opposition colleagues promised to rescind the consumption tax and oppose further liberalization of farm imports. "The people are aware of how politics affects their daily life," Doi said during a campaign tour. "It's the politicians who are behind the times...
...world, America has lost some of its radiant pride of place. Japan has risen. Europe is organizing itself into a new collective power. The Soviet Union is struggling to escape the dustbin of history. Gorbachev, a magician of much elan, attempts to rescind the hoax of Communism without denouncing its idea. It is fascinating to watch a smart man trying to defend a premise that is beneath his intelligence...