Word: enact
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...Executive has received from Congress in recent years, read parts of his speech too fast. No matter that the speech itself, studded with statistics, lacked Reagan's unique verbal tang. The potential, far-reaching importance of what he offered, of what he urged the legislators to accept and enact, was there. His program was detailed in a 281-page volume called America 's New Beginning: A Program for Economic Recovery, which Congress had already received. The numbers alone were startling enough: $467 billion less federal spending, combined with $709 billion in tax savings for individuals and businesses, over...
When the legislators do get around to voting on taxes, they will not enact the "simple and clean" income tax cut Reagan wants. Legislators, as always, will try to load the bill with all kinds of amendments: an increase in personal exemptions; further reduction of the capital gains tax on sale of assets, such as stock or real estate; an end to the "marriage penalty" that now forces many working couples to pay a higher tax on their combined earnings than they would if they were single and filing separately. To make room for such amendments, the cuts in basic...
There were also rehearsed spectacles that were part of a careful plan laid down by autocratic President Ferdinand Marcos and his powerful First Lady Imelda, who had much to gain from a festive association with John Paul. Everywhere, as if on cue, Filipinos were on hand to enact earnest welcoming playlets, sing, dance or pose as "tribesmen" in outdated garb. During one motorcade, a phalanx of trained water buffalo knelt in reverence just as the pontifical car swept by, while at another point a beaming bride and groom in a mock wedding paused in mid-ceremony to wave...
...business community and the public that he not only can shape but can begin to execute a coherent, comprehensive plan to combat both inflation and recession. Political and economic cycles whirl too rapidly these days to give him any more time than that. Congress must be persuaded to enact some of the hotly controversial cuts in federal spending before the momentum generated by Reagan's landslide election victory begins to ebb. Financiers, businessmen, workers and consumers must be assured that a real change is coming before they harden in their belief that double-digit inflation, recurrent recessions and towering...
...Cambridge City Council last night voted to ask the state legislature for permission to enact measures to offset the effects of Proposition 2 1/2 on the city...