Word: enact
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...Congress leaves the President in a felicitous position. Lyndon Johnson, unlike John F. Kennedy, will not often have to expend his political capital in leading liberal assaults in Congress. The President can have the advantages of appealing to a national consensus and the assurances that the Congress will enact his liberal program...
...Appel stated the A.M.A.'s position succinctly: "There is no reason for a tax-supported program. We have a much better program in Kerr-Mills. If the states would enact good Kerr-Mills laws the medical needs of the elderly would be met better and at less expense than through medicare. But if it passes, the A.M.A. will obey the Constitution and the laws...
...legislative recommendations, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. gave top priority to the repeal of Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley law. The clause gives states the right to enact right-to-work laws, banning union shop contracts. Big Labor has been fighting it since 1947, when Taft-Hartley was enacted. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. figures that next year it will have at least 225 votes for the repeal of 14(b), provided of course that the Johnson Administration does not interfere. That seems unlikely,, especially since Lyndon Johnson ordered a repeal proposal included in the Democratic Party platform...
Under such pressure, state legislatures are becoming somewhat reluctant to enact new tax laws, instead are turning more and mo're to the bond market; states, counties and cities are now raising about $10 billion a year through tax-exempt bonds. With the supply of investable money at an alltime high, the market has no trouble filling this demand among commercial banks and in surance companies. And the nation's voters, however much they dislike debt and taxes, are usually willing to go along with bond issues to get what they want for their communities -expecially since that...
...Yale, Manning churned out pioneering articles on corporation law, organized lively seminars on everything from state governments to Latin American jurisprudence. He rebuilt a Connecticut farmhouse with his own hands, found time to draft the state's new corporation law and persuade the state legislature to enact it. Fluent in Spanish, to say nothing of Norwegian and Japanese, Manning helped to organize the Peace Corps program in Latin America, did research for the CIA, helped to draft the 1962 Trade Extension Act, toiled for NATO on the problems of a multinational nuclear force and hit the banquet trail...