Word: enact
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...taxes and without turning the medical industry inside out. It was pie in the sky, but that hardly mattered: Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey had a plan and had been telling audiences that Clinton did not. The Arkansas Governor declared his plan to be "uniquely American" and promised to enact it in the first year of his administration. The tactic worked: campaign pollster Stan Greenberg noted later that once Clinton put his plan out, the issue went away...
Clinton's reform plan grew from a necessary campaign plank into a centerpiece of his presidency, and the President's attitude was marked by a whatever-it-takes practicality. For one thing, his aides reworked the timing of the scheme. Clinton now concedes he will need another year to enact his plan and three more to put it fully into place. After insisting that raising taxes wasn't necessary, Clinton's aides made an increase part of the strategy, then scaled the proposed taxes back to just a levy on cigarettes. Clinton fashioned the plan to curry the support...
Clinton imposed a daunting 100-day deadline for Magaziner: he asked for a report by early May. In his Feb. 17 speech to Congress about his economic program, Clinton went further, ad-libbing a line that repeated his impossible campaign promise to enact the measure in 1993. And then he turned his attention to the budget...
...visiting committees have not sat still over the past several years, instead turning inward to enact change within themselves. A recent trend, according to administrators, is the development of subcommittees dealing with more specific departments or issues...
...year-old mother Miss Beryl to sign over her house to him, but since Miss Beryl's role is to be the Smartest Person in Town, she won't. the novel's hero, Sully, a 60-year-old handyman with a bad knee, will enact Good Guy Without a Grain of Sense. Sully's sidekick Rub plays Loyal Shortie with the Brain of a Beagle. The lawyer Wirf, representing Sully in a workmen's comp case, will remain Drunk & Useless...