Word: enact
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...exactly how much such crime costs; often the losses are not even reported by embarrassed companies. But the larceny clearly is far from petty. It may well run to hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Last January, California became the first state to enact a computer-fraud law, allowing fines of up to $5,000 and three years' imprisonment. Still, warns Donn Parker of SRI International, a leading scholar of electronic theft: "By the end of the 1980s, computer crimes could cause economic chaos...
...Republican Party sets about forging what Rusher calls "a new majority coalition" to enact Reagan's programs Bill Buckley expects to be kept quite busy in his chosen role at National Review watching, criticizing, correcting his fel low conservatives in the ways of the faith articulating new positions for them - anc for Reagan. Says the editor of the President's favorite magazine: "I'm changing my entry in Who's Who. Under profession, instead of editor, I am going to put ventriloquist...
...study, directed by Joseph S. Nye, professor of Public Policy and former Undersecretary of State, recommends the U.S. enact emergency allocation procedures, bolster its stockpiles of oil, and adopt cooperative strategies with its allies for emergency oil distribution...
...local party leaders from across the nation. The primaries would force candidates to test their appeals--and could, presumably, designate the choice of some delegates--but would not choose delegates bound to vote for a given candidate. Most experts see this idea as worthwhile--but nearly impossible to enact because it would seem to imply a return to the "boss" system...
...have few suggestions of how to do it. Some suggest funneling matching funds to party officials, not individual candidates, thus strengthening party control. Others recommend designating half or more seats at national conventions for party officials--a proposal that would increase party influence but would also be hard to enact given its "undemocratic" appearance...