Word: enacted
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...burst of enthusiasm for the salvation of the American environment, President Nixon urged Congress last year to enact a 14-point program of reforms. Members of Congress introduced a score of bills of their own to regulate everything from strip mining to the location of power plants. Yet not a single major piece of environmental legislation passed both houses. While everybody wanted a cleaner America, it appeared, not everybody was ready to pay for it, at least not when the economy was lagging...
...important that they do so this time as well. Although the referendum is described as "in no way binding," those contemplating voting in it should make no mistake about its meaning: if a large turnout ratifies the new proposal, the Faculty Council and the Faculty will then enact it as the student's choice, and the CRR will acquire full legitimacy and become a permanent part of the University landscape...
...definition of chutzpah by re-choreographing the Jerome Robbins dance numbers. Leonard Bernstein's music holds up best, and its peppy dissonances and romantic melodic line serve to season the overall inanity. Key Performers Bernadette Peters, Phyllis Newman, Donna McKechnie, Ron Husmann, Jess Richards and Remak Ramsay enact their roles with desperate valiance. So did the ship's band that played Nearer My God to Thee on the maiden voyage of the Titanic...
...petite bourgeoisie itself is aiming for independence but it is important to understand that if the Parti Quebecois (Quebec People's Party-PQ), as presently constituted, were to take power it would be unable to do more than enact minor reforms. In fact, its reforms would have to be at least as radical as those of Allende in Chile, and this would have to come from pressure from the membership itself, in order to concretely solve Quebec's socio-cultural and economic problems...
...scarcely all the Governor's fault. As soon as he was inaugurated, he pressured the legislature to enact a personal income tax to help pay Pennsylvania's mounting bills. Three predecessors in the job had tried and failed to get an income tax, but taking advantage of his Democratic majorities in both houses of the legislature, Shapp managed to push one through after little more than a month in office. It barely passed (only one Republican voted for it), but Shapp felt gratified that he had cleared his major hurdle...