Word: enacted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...votes in both chambers exceeded the two-thirds majority needed to enact a law over a presidential veto. It was the ninth time Congress had rejected a Reagan veto...
While many state insurance regulators are eager to supervise car-rental firms, they have been unable to do so. Reason: courts have ruled that the rental-agency coverage for collision, injury and property losses is not a form of insurance in the traditional sense. But states are beginning to enact laws to restrict the industry's questionable sales practices. And last May, Minnesota passed a law that required all auto insurance sold in the state to cover the owner for rental...
While the most dramatic slow-growth rebellions have occurred in California, similar if less intense movements are emerging across the country. Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin last week called on the legislature to enact a statewide growth-management plan to provide Vermont with "greater control over our destiny." In New Jersey a statewide commission has been appointed to draft a similar plan by 1989. Last fall three pro-growth members of the board of supervisors of Fairfax County, Va., a Washington suburb, were ousted by proponents of slow growth...
...point [of these meetings] is not just to talk about what is good policy, but to come up with something" that the University can enact," said moderator and CLUH president Gregory G. Nadeau...
...tens of thousands of Boston-area students who will return home this week must face the terrors of the modern world--congested airports, bus terminals, and train stations--before they can re-enact the Thanksgiving day meal...