Word: enacted
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...completion of Rooks' analysis and cure, he felt that making a film about it would be the perfect way to enact a final exorcism of the demons, rid his mind and body once-and-for-all of drugs and liquor. Backed by a family fortune which had previously sustained his drug habit, Rooks cast himself in the lead part (giving himself a pseudonym, Russell Harwick), and went to work in 16mm, deciding 6 months later to do it up proud and shoot professionally in 35mm. Only a few of the original shots remain, indicated by a black strip of masking...
During the conference, the President touched on foreign-aid cuts ("a serious mistake") and on congressional reluctance to enact his proposed 10% surcharge on individual and corporate income taxes. Singling out House Republican Leader Gerald Ford, Wisconsin Republican John Byrnes and Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, he declared: "They will live to regret the day when they made that decision [to bottle up the tax bill], because it is a dangerous decision. It is an unwise decision." Raising taxes is an unpopular move, but "we should do it" and eventually "Congress will...
...simplest solution to the first problem, and the only way to enact pass-fail on a truly widespread basis, is to allow students to postpone designating their pass-fail course until after their study cards are drawn up. Applicants for limited-enrollment courses would simply not say whether they intend to take them for a regular or a pass-fail grade...
...assistant prosecutor under City Law Director Ralph Locher. The next step, in 1962, was election to the state legislature, where he quickly established himself as a prolific, catholic lawmaker. He helped draft legislation establishing a state department of urban affairs, wrote a new mental-health services act, helped enact stiffer traffic regulations, promoted a gun-control bill, worked for tougher air-pollution controls, and was the only Democrat to sponsor a bill giving the Governor power to send the National Guard into a city before a riot situation gets out of hand...
...toward a probable mid-December adjournment. Though it will not beat the longevity record of the wartime Congress that sat for a full year in 1940-41, the current session will be remembered for its monumental nonproductivity. Still, after months of disgruntled stalemate, the members last week did grudgingly enact some of Lyndon Johnson's bruised and battered legislative program...