Word: enact
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Lakian says now is the time to enact a balanced budget amendment...
...fact, in recent years censorship in Canada has perhaps made the term "liberal democracy" inapplicable to the country. Canada recently adopted a law advocated by Andrea Dworkin allowing, in essence, the censorship of works with derogatory depictions of women. Similar attempts to enact such laws in the United States have been repeatedly found unconstitutional...
Just in yesterday's New York Times, for example, a page-one story recounted how state legislators are tripping and falling over themselves in their rush to enact "tough" sentencing laws against criminals. Criminals seem to be the one constituency wholly out of favor with politicians...
...proposals for more Fed openness by sending him a letter last September opposing any fundamental changes in the Federal Reserve Act. Then Greenspan sought to outflank Gonzalez in February and March by taking the unprecedented step of announcing the rate hikes the same day the Fed decided to enact them...
...weed another rebellious turn-on for kids? What sort of policy sense does it make to try to legislate smoking out of existence at the same time that the government is becoming increasingly dependent on tobacco as a source of tax revenue? And for all the new efforts to enact tough restrictions on smoking, how widely does the American public support them...