Word: enaction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With petroleum prices in worldwide retreat, does it make any sense for the U.S. to enact a tax that might nudge the price back up again just for Americans? In a rising chorus, economists and energy experts everywhere have been answering with a deafening yes. By last week there were signs that Washington was beginning to listen. Proposals for levies of various sorts were under active examination in Congress, and top White House officials reported growing support for an energy-tax package within the Administration itself...
...Edward J. King kicked off housings the state Committee on Criminal Justice yesterday afternoon by strongly urging that the state re-enact the death penalty for convicted murderers...
...there is a second principle at stake, which Star interprets as "the simplistic belief that 'bigness is badness.' "Agreed: there are those who simply don't like big business and who would freely use the antitrust laws to enact their views, However, a closer look reveals a large, reliable body of scholarship, which demonstrates the adverse consequences of one of a few firms controlling the bulk of a market--irrespective of their conduct. Ironically, for example, some firms in difficult-to-enter markets gain high profits which are unrelated to superior business practices or R&D. The general idea...
...budget document concedes "would impose extreme pressures on financial markets-[and] undermine the outlook for continued monetary restraint, reduced inflation and economic growth." To begin with, the estimate that the fiscal 1982 figure will stay a hair below $100 billion depends on the highly dubious assumption that Congress will enact further cuts in such programs as food stamps, welfare, Medicare and Medicaid to take effect in the remaining eight months of the year. The $91.5 billion projection for fiscal 1983 assumes not only that the legislators will accept all of Reagan's proposed reductions in social spending, but that...
Read never allows Milson's ordeal to stray into abstractions. His characters talk about history and ethics, but they enact them as well. Questions blossom from events. Why is Ludley methodically drinking himself to death? Why does his wife want him to sleep with Helen, a runaway English schoolgirl who has fetched up at the villa? And why is Ludley, who once spouted Nietzsche and spurned conventional behavior, resisting...