Word: enact
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...state ethics-reform law, passed after the felony indictments of two California legislators, makes attendance at biennial ethics courses mandatory for all state legislators and their staff members. It is probably the first time that an entire legislature has been sent back to school. Typically, Josephson asked participants to enact real-life situations that involve moral dilemmas. A pet example: When a senator is invited to speak out of town, is it proper for the sponsoring group to pay for the air fare and hotel bills of his family? Josephson explains that while such perks may be legal, they...
...recovered from near fatal gunshot wounds, he declared that he still opposed gun control. Last week the former President announced that he had changed his mind. In a speech at George Washington University, where he was treated after being shot by John W. Hinckley, Reagan called on Congress to enact a law requiring a seven-day waiting period for the purchase of handguns...
Rudenstine should also expand the role of the student-faculty ACSR and empower it to enact strict ethical guidelines for investments which all University affiliates would be bound to follow...
...Japan, Germany and most of the rest of Europe lay in smoking ruins. It is an utterly different world now. The coalition's brilliant desert campaign is not a repeatable model: history does not usually enact itself in black-and-white, good-guy-bad-guy melodramas...
...course ever since Yeltsin quit the party last July and emerged as the rallying point for the forces of democracy in the Soviet Union. His television statements marked the definitive split between the nation's two most powerful politicians. Yeltsin accused Gorbachev of "deceiving" the people by failing to enact the radical economic reforms he had promised and by accumulating enough personal power to create a dictatorship. "I have made my choice," Yeltsin said. "I believe in the support of the peoples of Russia, and I hope...