Word: enacted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past two years, anti-pornography feminist groups across the country have tried to enact identical laws in Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and New York. Last month, a U.S. Appeals Court of Appeals upheld the unconstitutionality of the Indianapolis statute...
President Bok joined 19 other college and university presidents in urging the U.S. Senate to enact legislation that would impose strong sanctions on the South African government. In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.) and Minority Leader Robert C. Byrd (D-W. Va.), the presidents wrote that the U.S. must punish South Africa for its refusal to dismantle its apartheid system by "sending an unequivocal message through the imposition of official sanctions...
Mitterand: You seem to be getting a lot of bad press, though, P.W. Many westerners who watched your speech last night were hoping you would extend universal suffrage to all South African people or at least enact something that looked progressive. I'm glad you decided to keep the white aristocracy strong, but that was very naughty of you not to meet with Bishop Tutu a few week...
After Thunderdome, Max takes a brief holiday in what seems like Walt Disney's version of Lord of the Flies. A tribe of deserted children enact with Durkheimian accuracy the ritual of their history for Max, then declare him to be their messiah. Max finds this scene to be quite annoying, as does the audience. Max states himself what the focus of a Mad Max movie should be when he declares that he is not a childrens' messiah, but rather, "the guy who keeps Mr. Death in his pocket." (Would that the directors had kept to that focus...
Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54, who drafted the plan's explanatory letter sent to the 11,000 employees affected by the program, said the decision to enact the insurance came after nine months of planning and conversation among Corporation members...