Word: enact
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...founder of the state's Conservative Union, plans to study Article 5 of the United States Constitution, which has been the subject of national debate in recent years. Opponents of abortion and forced school busing have invoked Article 5, which outlines procedure for constitutional conventions, in their attempt to enact constitutional curbs on such practices...
Fundamentally, the problem is that the reductions in spending programs that Reagan has pushed through Congress so far have come nowhere near offsetting the income tax cuts that he got the legislators to enact in 1981. That is true even though most of the major reductions that can be hacked out of so-called nondefense discretionary programs, in which Congress decides every year how much to appropriate, have already been made...
...esprit with a vengeance, its principal characters, like so many of Fowles' earlier creations, held in thrall by forces they cannot quite explain. Erato and Miles are prisoners of gender. When they squabble, as they do throughout the rest of the novel, they helplessly re-enact timeless wars between the sexes...
...reality but refusing to believe that it will be safe. Dr. John G. Hermos, co-chairman of the NOMATEP coalition, said recently. Hermos added that his group will mount a new campaign of monitoring pollution levels in amassing related data in hopes of pressuring state authorities to enact new restrictions on the plant...
Even after Roosevelt's landslide victory, Congress was reluctant to enact a plan that seemed far too radical to some members. Roosevelt repeatedly warned congressional leaders that if they did not approve a moderate Social Security bill, popular pressure would force them to adopt irresponsible Government handout schemes like the ones being pushed by California's Dr. Francis Townsend and Louisiana Governor Huey Long. To soothe conservative qualms, Roosevelt demanded that his planners draft a scheme that was not "the same old dole." That ruled out any use of general revenues, meaning primarily income taxes, to finance...