Mr Brown lowered corporation tax for smaller businesses and abolished it for very small companies.
In the 20th Century alone, the Spanish government has restored Catalan autonomy thrice and abolished it twice.
He was also its last chairman before Margaret Thatcher abolished it in 1986 - "for which I will always hate her".
They passed one initiative that extends the remit of an independent redistricting commission, and rejected another that would have abolished it.
Although it was one of the first states to adopt voter registration in the 19th Century, it abolished it in 1951.
As recently as 1965, only 12 countries had completely abolished the death penalty, while a further 11 had abolished it for ordinary crimes in peacetime.
For all his long involvement in local government he was leader of the Greater London Council until, not unrelatedly, Margaret Thatcher abolished it ruling London was never Mr Livingstone's main ambition either.
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The system is guaranteed to produce a less-qualified work force than simply picking the highest scorers, but it was used for years in the New York Police Department, until the Giuliani administration abolished it in the mid-1990s.
The capital gains tax ought to be reduced or abolished because it dampens risk-taking.
One minister resigned, saying his ministry should be abolished since it had nothing to do.
The above in mind, if the FDIC were abolished, it's likely that a private version of it would quickly materialize.
The infamous Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Taliban's ruthless religious enforcement agency, was never properly abolished: it has merely lost its ministerial status and is now known as the Department of Islamic Instruction.
In the end, Google's revolution was not that it abolished content portals or even refuted them except in presentation style.
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One reason to think it will not last forever is that in most of the countries where it has been abolished, a majority of the public remained in favour of keeping it at the time.
The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) inherited the cinema from Yorkshire Forward when it was abolished last year.
Glass-Steagall was finally abolished in 1999 because it had already, in practice, been side-stepped by banks and investment houses.
It was abolished and now legislative proposals would give more power to the Federal Reserve to oversee the biggest companies underpinning the financial system.
MEPs signed a defence of the old Clause Four, which used to pledge the party to nationalisation before it was abolished at the instigation of Mr Blair.
The quango, which is to be subsumed by the assembly, has said it wants its work promoting the Welsh language to continue after it is abolished in 2007.
In April it will be abolished and its finances passed to four clinical commissioning groups (CCGs).
As a type of arbitrary detention, RTL should not be reformed: it should be abolished outright.
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It has also abolished the assisted-places scheme, which enabled less well-off children to attend private schools.
But he wanted that abolished too, in case it was used against people who'd suffered from mental health problems.
This is not the first time the fee has been criticised - more than half of people polled about it suggested it should be abolished, according to survey in the Daily Telegraph last October.
It should be abolished, not reformed.
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Congress has made it clear that it wants mark-to-market suspended or abolished, but the SEC and the Treasury Department still refuse to meaningfully modify it.
Ismail Ibrahim in the state-owned Al-Ahram al-Masai satirises the opposition which is calling for the new constitution to be abolished after the majority of voters approved it.
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