Word: enact
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...late 1970s. In a significant political coup, Reagan last year overrode legislative machinery that Congress had designed specifically to give itself permanent control of the budget process. For the moment at least, dazed lawmakers will have to accept, reject or amend presidential proposals rather than enact their own. The President's triumph was the latest skirmish in a seesaw struggle over spending that has gone on since the founding days of the Republic, even though Article I of the Constitution theoretically gives Congress primary power over the federal purse. The first Congresses appropriated lump sums that Presidents George Washington...
...massive tax increases. Last week Reagan moved toward a difficult decision: he would not keep his pledge to balance the budget, but would hold firm to his 1982 tax cuts and permit only limited tax hikes later. At the same time, he would ask an increasingly rebellious Congress to enact even more horrendous future slashes in spending...
...hill. The defendants, owners of the truck, insisted that the driver must have been doing more than 85 m.p.h. A solution came to Merritt one day as he watched Hollywood Stunt Man Alan Gibbs put a car through a midair roll on TV. Why not have Gibbs re-enact the accident on videotape? That was fine with Gibbs, 40, a specialist in motorized mayhem whose credits include racing, spinning and virtually flying Burt Reynolds' Pontiac Trans Am in the 1977 film Smokey and the Bandit...
...rewarding on a personal level, he is disappointed at the pathetic reaction of the public and the state legislature to the report. The stories of corruption did receive publicity for a short time--hey filled an entire section of one day's Boston Globe--and the legislature eventually did enact three laws to reform the system for awarding contracts. But Ward questions the determination of state officials to attack the problem, recalling that the first appointee to the new watchdog office of Inspector General, a post created in response to the commission's report, said in his first press conference...
Between 1970 and fiscal 1981, the cost of living rose 138%, yet in that same period federal spending on entitlement programs more than quadrupled, from $70 billion to $295 billion. Despite the initial scaling down of benefit formulas that Reagan has persuaded Congress to enact in some programs, entitlement