Word: enacted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Inevitably, there were disagreements, some over scientific accuracy, others involving personality. Sagan, a novice at TV production, admits that he ruffled feelings among the TV staff with his constant questioning. There were logistical problems. A severe snowstorm hit Death Valley just before the Cosmos team was scheduled to re-enact a Viking landing. A few miles away, the U.S. Air Force was conducting bomb runs. In addition, word came that Sagan's father had developed lung cancer. Over the ten months of illness that led up to his father's death, Carl frequently had to be away from the filming...
...student demand in the 1969 strike was an end to University evictions of city tenants; the demand reflected the increasing crisis in housing that in 1970 led the City Council to enact rent control legislation while hundreds of partisans looked...
...from Sutton, "the joining was strictly contractual, rather like a pre-arranged marriage of convenience in which the partners shared little love and continued to sleep in separate bedrooms." Actually, there was comparatively little for government to do--this was a boom era, and local government simply did not enact zoning regulations. It also refrained from planning, and even building codes were rudimentary. The look-the-other-way policy permitted fast economic growth, so fast, indeed, that the 1873-78 depression was scarcely felt in the city...
Saturday--1 p.m.--Small ships, like those the original settlers would have used, will said up the Charles to re-enact the city's founding. A procession to Winthrop Square for speeches and ceremonies will follow. People to watch include Gov. Edward J. King, Lt. Gov. Thomas P. O'Neill III (incidentally, Gov. John Winthrop used to quarrel with his lieutenant, Deputy Governor Dudley) and Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 who will speak on current issues in local government...
...important to enact the legislation now so we can give the board time to plan, to recruit a person, and to fit him into the rent control bureaucracy," Sullivan said...