Word: enacted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more Americans are relying on those dollars to help provide a comfortable standard of living after they retire. Unfortunately, all too many of them have had no real assurance that they will ever see a cent of the money. Now workers can breathe somewhat easier: Congress is set to enact this week a long-overdue pension reform bill designed to make sure that employees collect the benefits they earn...
...dairy producers, the brief repeated the President's public contention that he acted in response to general political and economic pressures rather than in return for campaign funds. Congress was pushing for such a raise in support, the brief noted, and Nixon might have been compelled by legislation to enact the raises anyway, because vetoing such a bill would have been politically unwise...
...beautiful guy, a very loving human being who has taught me a lot about loving," she told their audiences. "He's shy, modest and very, very kind." Between their Canadian yin-and-yang act, there were a few political handouts: Trudeau pledged that he would enact a low-income housing program with small down-payment mortgages; $500 in cash, tax free, from the government toward the purchase of a first house; guaranteed incomes for the disabled...
...years. He was helped by a divisive GOP primary and a shirtsleeve campaign against development: "Vermont is not for sale " A lawyer who was a judge at 30 and the youngest minority leader in the history of the state house of representatives at 35, Salmon has helped enact stringent laws to control land development and speculation. Rather than seek retiring Senator George Aiken's seat he is running for a second term, intending to complete the programs he has begun...
...high interest rates and credit scarcity. More banks could and should start saying no to large companies that seek loans they do not really need, rather than pinching off credit to small businesses and scrambling to come up with the money to satisfy the big borrowers. Congress should enact an Administration-sponsored bill that would enable savings and loans to make consumer loans and enter other fields now reserved to banks. If they could make money from a broader range of services, S and Ls could compete more effectively with banks for funds...