Word: enact
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prodded by its chairman, Alfred Sikes, has proposed a more sweeping set of rules -- which it may enact later this year -- allowing phone companies to provide a "video dial tone" that would allow people in effect to attach their television sets to their phone lines and call up shows they want to watch...
...ancestral Cumberlands, telling a nation's story in terms of feelings for that patch of land among three families intertwined by treachery and revenge. Warner Shook's staging vividly mixes ritual and realism. While Schenkkan is far better at incident than character, Charles Hallahan and Tuck Milligan enact just the sort of rogues whom descendants go on talking about. The plays strive for mythic power -- and attain it. W.A.H...
...recent years, the court's new conservative majority has been subjecting Roe to what looks like a reversal in slow motion. While never discarding the right to abortion altogether, the Justices have interpreted it so narrowly that states are now free to enact restrictions that would have been struck down in earlier years. The Pennsylvania case could complete the process -- especially now that conservative Clarence Thomas has probably tipped the court even further to the right...
...problem is to appoint a task force or study commission), and since then he has been working to repair the system. He hopes to reach a settlement before the suit comes to trial, now scheduled for March, and plans to call a special session of the legislature to enact reforms...
...there would be formidable logistical challenges to independence: the republic would have to set up its own border posts, enact its own citizenship laws and complete talks on removal of an estimated 1.2 million Soviet soldiers. The Ukraine's Parliament already has voted to create its own army and currency...