Word: enacted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mined-out areas: if the land cannot be restored, it cannot be mined, period. President Ford has twice vetoed the bill, arguing that it would cut coal production, throw 36,000 people out of work and also raise the price of coal. In his eyes, each state should enact surface-mining laws to suit its own needs. Congress is unpersuaded, though, and will try to push the same measure through this year...
...shaping up, the strategy of the Democratic leaders in the House is to enact liberal legislation and lay it on the doorstep of the Senate. There, the House leaders hope, Democrats like Senator Kennedy, spurred on by the press and public opinion, will get the bills through. Then they would land on the desk in the Oval Office, where President Ford would face a dilemma. If he approves bills that break his budget, he risks attack from Ronald Reagan, his conservative Republican rival. But if he wins the nomination by saying no to jobs and social programs, Jerry Ford...
...muster votes for it probably will be made in 1976. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Vice President Burton R. Marcus concedes that the current law has bred abuses that "constitute a rip-off and ought to be eliminated." Like other motion-picture executives, however, he is afraid that Congress may enact legislation that would damage the industry's ability to obtain conventional outside financing...
...LEGISLATIVE CHARTER. Both critics and supporters of the FBI agreed that Congress should enact legislation spelling out what the FBI can and cannot do, particularly in the area of keeping watch on violence-prone dissidents and potential subversives. Said FBI Director Clarence Kelley: "I would welcome any guidelines...
...snow falls, the more snow tires they can expect to sell. To their dismay, recent winters have been unusually mild; on top of that, seven states have banned the metal-studded tires that accounted for 40% of all snow tires sold in the early 1970s. More states may well enact similar laws on the ground that the metal studs tear up highway surfaces. As a result, snow-tire sales have melted steadily, from 19.1 million tires in 1972 to 17.5 million in 1974; this year's sales may drop below 15 million...