Word: enacted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ervin Jr., 78, Democratic Senator from North Carolina for 20 years: "My greatest regret has been my inability to enact some very basic laws that would guarantee individual freedom. I believe that you ought to leave as much governing as possible to the people at the local level...
...much as 30% of the vote-compared with 12.3% in December 1973. If these projections are correct, the Liberals will topple the Social Democrats from their position as Denmark's largest party. Hartling may then be able to constitute a coalition government strong enough to enact tough wage and price controls and continue his modest cutbacks on taxes and welfare...
...kind of performance. True, the press is a private institution, yet its freedom is guaranteed in order to protect it from prosecution for serving the public interest. But if the press insists on invading the privacy of public figures without good cause, lawmakers are likely to retaliate. They could enact legislation to protect the privacy of public figures or otherwise limit press freedom...
Congress should enact the long-awaited strip-mining bill to help increase coal production from the present 600 million tons per year to 1 billion tons. The growth would occur, as the bill now stands, in regions where the land can be reclaimed after surface mining: mainly the Midwest and Appalachia. Reclaiming the arid stretches of the West would be more difficult. In the meantime, underground mining, which is the only way to extract most of the nation's 1.3 trillion tons of coal, should be expanded by using advanced technology: machines that continuously bore or shave seams...
However, there is a very slim chance of having a voluntary busing program involved in an effort to balance school children racially and socially, he said. Before the proposal would affect Cambridge, state laws would first have to be passed with funding to enact the program, Wylie added...