Word: overturning
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...Clean Air Act, that now delay refineries, pipelines and other energy projects. The board would have the power to make some decisions for federal, state or local agencies that were delaying needed developments. The House-passed bill goes further than Carter proposed and gives the board power even to overturn federal laws, although state and local ones remain outside its domain, Arizona Democrat Morris Udall and other Capitol Hill environmentalists feared that the new agency might repeal two decades of antipollution crusades. But a strong coalition demanding an end to energy delays resisted substantial weakening of the new body...
...good double for Who Guitarist Pete Townshend. Daniels also has two funny and touching sex scenes. When Jimmy masturbates solemnly at home and later makes inexperienced love to a prized "bird" (Leslie Ash), the film persuasively demonstrates that even the revolutions of the '60s did not overturn the crucial rituals of postadolescence. In those moments, Quadrophenia offers not only historical drama but also the kind of human drama that is timeless. -Frank Rich
...white crimes are no more than handslaps. No one, including black leaders, advocates a relaxation of standards for punishing violence--especially mob violence--for any group, but the law must be equitably enforced. Otherwise, there is no deterrent for would-be attackers, who will feel free to stone buses, overturn cars, and participate in attacks on innocent passersby like that on a Harvard student last week...
William H. Read, a research fellow in the Harvard Program on Information Resources Policy, said this week the less developed nations for the first time control more than two-thirds of the conference's votes. He added, they could overturn the present laissez-faire principles of frequency distribution, which favor developed nations. "What are the incentives not to change the political rules of the game if you are the have-nots?" Read said...
...Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, recently assessed the political prospects of key U.S. allies in the Far East. Its conclusion: while South Korea and Thailand face internal political threats that could lead to acceptable changes in their current governments, the Philippines faces a threat that could overturn the system of government itself. The worry in Washington is that even Marcos' non-Communist opposition, though still largely fragmented, is deepening and becoming more radical. The longer the President clings to a brand of autocracy that he calls "constitutional authoritarianism," it is feared, the more he could radicalize...