Word: enact
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...spending, and in fact the legislators are talking of slashes going a bit deeper than the $13 billion that Jimmy Carter proposed two weeks ago as the keystone of his fourth anti-inflation program. But the battle over just which programs to reduce by how much-and whether to enact some relatively minor tax increases as well-is by no means settled...
...discipline to enact even the modest spending cuts that the President proposes. On the other hand, there is the serious question of whether the President himself will have the discipline to resist the inevitable demands that he make this and that exception. "Discipline," of course, is a word that is most easily applied to other people. The Administration sought to win advance approval for its plan by consulting groups of Representatives and Senators from both parties, but the heaviest burden naturally fell on Carter's fellow Democrats, who control Congress. Meetings with them went on daily for the better...
Meanwhile the President began mulling over the hard choices in the renewed war on inflation. The major options: 1) draconian cuts in the fat budget for fiscal 1981 and perhaps even for 1980; 2) Executive action to enact a program of credit controls that would curb the growth of bank lending to businesses or consumers; 3) a new excise tax on gasoline in order to cut energy consumption and curb the inflationary import of foreign oil; and 4) a request to Congress for permission to levy wage and price controls...
...relative, no one can be there as fast with the ambulance. The spirit of Gemini is very precious, and its hero is the Drama: it makes these trivial people very grand, renders the corniest platitudes heroic and profound, and gives us insight into those big and little dramas we enact every day, performing to keep the cold...
House Speaker Tip O'Neill already has predicted that Congress will not agree to register women, so Carter decided to take no chances. The Administration will introduce two bills, one covering men, the other women. Thus male registration, which Carter wants Congress to enact immediately as a warning to the Soviets, will not be delayed by the debate over G.I. Jill...