Word: enacted
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Social Issues. As a candidate, Reagan heartily endorsed the New Right's agenda of banning abortion and compulsory busing and reinstituting prayer in public schools. As President he has given that agenda no more than lip service, and so the ultraconservatives have been unable to enact a single measure...
AMHERST--The Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts (UMass) earlier this week enacted a formal procedure for handling sexual harassment cases, resulting from two years of students lobbying for the university to enact a concrete policy...
...markets appeared to be elated that the election outcome seems unlikely to bring about any major shifts in economic policy. Some financial analysts were concerned that if the Democrats gained control of Congress, the lawmakers might enact a big emergency spending program to create new jobs. That would speed up the recovery, but could also rekindle inflation...
...BALLOT CAN BE an amazingly blunt tool for conveying political preferences. Ronald Reagan took his party's 1980 landslide as a national endorsement of a very specific right-wing agenda, and over the next two years he and his congressional colleagues proceeded to enact a shocking amount of the 1980 Republican platform. The beating taken by conservative candidates in last week's midterm elections suggests Reagan's interpretation was too hasty and too sweeping. America two years ago now appears to have been demanding an end to four years of Democratic ineptitude, not signifying broad support for supply-side economics...
...trick or treat" patrols, organized by Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci and other city officials after the city council refused to enact an outright trick-or-treating bun, were staffed by Cambridge and Harvard police city teachers, and other volunteers...