Word: enact
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...henchmen. Harris and Lewis were pals and musical rivals of Prince's back in junior high school, and have gone on to some substantial success of their own by producing the last two top-selling Janet Jackson albums. But in Graffiti Bridge they are called on to re-enact the old adolescent competition. Prince bests them, natch. As a colleague explains, "Prince wrote the script, pulled in the money, directed and used his own studios. How could we expect a different ending...
...Congress were being asked to endorse the unpalatable idea that voters should pay more taxes while receiving less in the way of public services. Faced with that painful -- albeit necessary -- proposition, the lawmakers simply cut and ran, ignoring Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's admonition that "failure to enact the agreement would produce an adverse reaction in financial markets that could undercut our economy...
...order, or, more likely, an "exception" to the standing one, and legally keep it secret. The only way to prevent that would be to write a prohibition against assassinations into law. After congressional investigations in the 1970s turned up evidence of CIA-sponsored assassination plots, attempts were made to enact such a law. But they failed, says one legislator, because "nobody was prepared to say right out that assassination could never be U.S. policy...
...Drug Free Schools and Campuses Act, which takes effect on October 1, links federal funding to enforcement of state drug and alcohol laws. The new law requires that colleges enact alcohol regulations that match state drinking laws, and Harvard officials say they have little choice but to obey...
...said it also would enact measures toimprove education and worker training as along-term investment in the quality of the U.S.work force. Washington also promised to developprograms to promote exports while easingrestrictions on oil exports