Word: voiding
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...SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA GROWTH ALLIANCE V. CAROL BROWNER (1997) Alito's opinion denied an attempt by manufacturers to void the Environmental Protection Agency's regional ozone standards. Alito determined that the agency had acted within its authority in enforcing local Clean Air Act rules, despite concerns that the environmental regulations could significantly affect manufacturers' operating costs...
...numbered rushes, and we spent too much time in our own zone in the first half of the game,” Donato said. The Crimson’s development in those areas will be tested tonight, when the team faces ECAC-newcomer Quinnipiac. The Bobcats, who fill the void left by Vermont’s departure, have scheduled the game in the Hartford Civic Center in anticipation of a large crowd. The arena has a concert capacity of 16,500, and tonight’s contest could easily shatter the old ECAC record of 7,460 fans. Coincidentally, Harvard...
...that are rethinking and retooling volunteerism. Civic Ventures, which sets up new programs to be run by existing nonprofits, is another. Some recent start-ups have carved out their own social-action niches and enlist their own recruits. Aaron Hurst, for example, founded Taproot in 2001 to fill a void he perceived for business professionals who wanted to make a civic contribution. "Five years ago," he says, "volunteer assignments were nearly all direct service: soup kitchens, tutoring kids, stuffing envelopes. Nonprofits were not focused on people contributing their skills...
...when his state's high court cleared the way for gay marriage, Gov. Mitt Romney invoked a law from 1913 prohibiting Massachusetts marriage licenses from being given to nonresident couples whose union would be "void" in their home state. Anti-integrationists were plain wrong then; black people had no master plan to destroy the institution of the white family. Who's to say the forces against gay marriage won't be proven Chicken Littles as well...
...inescapable part of modern life that it was only a matter of time until some watchdog of etiquette claimed the turf and started drawing boundaries and making rules. Still, credit Judith Martin, the author of the syndicated Miss Manners advice column, with considerable alertness in spotting a tiny void in the decorum field and then moving in with well-wrapped parcels of wisdom about the Net and other conveniences of late 20th century life, like the answering machine and the fax. Though one might suspect her of being a grumpy traditionalist in these matters, or even a Luddite, Martin...