Word: enact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the committee's student members predicted that administrators would never enact appropriate policies, President Bok formed yet another committee: this one to look into setting up a campus center for Third World students...
Among the changes Wells will enact are a drastic reduction in the number of students admitted to the program, which would allow closer student-faculty relationships and the lowering of certain financial barriers to program entrance...
Judge Robert Mulkern's seven-page opinion upheld both the city's right to enact the law, which requires developers to obtain a permit before converting apartments to condominiums or demolishing the units, and the constitutionality of the statute...
...federal laws were not the answer; Uncle Sam's money would be better spent chasing big-time traffickers. Instead, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) drafted a model anti-paraphernalia statute last fall that it maintains will withstand constitutional challenge, and began encouraging interested states and localities to enact it. The model prohibits, among other things, the manufacture, sale, advertisement and use of any object that is intended for growing or ingesting an illegal drug. The trouble with such language is that it tends to be overly broad. Authorities would have to prove state of mind since many items that...
...like Kennedy, he is unlikely to escape frustration: Higgins is hopelessly hooked on the local baseball team. "The Red Sox are a religion," he concludes. "Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play...