Word: enactment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that if something goes wrong with your main parachute, you have to recognize the difficulty as being something different from the normal (never having seen the normal, however). After you have reached the decision that something is wrong, you must decide on the appropriate course of action and enact it. It--presumably, using your reserve parachute--then takes a little time to take effect...
...wholesale flouting of old punitive laws and the fact that these statutes were endangering the lives of many women, the American Law Institute became concerned in the late 1950s. After careful study, the institute drafted a model abortion law. On April 25, 1967, Colorado became the first state to enact a modern abortion law, on the basic pattern of the A.L.I, model with a few minor optional accessories...
...seats. That would give the 91st Congress a Democratic edge of 226 Democrats to 209 Republicans. It would also give the House a more conservative tilt, making it more hostile to foreign aid than even the pinch-penny 90th, more sympathetic to defense appropriations, less anxious to enact fresh domestic programs, more eager to transfer federal projects to state and local control...
...Hradcany Castle one morning last week rumbled a long cavalcade of black Tatra limousines. From them stepped Party First Secretary Alexander Dubcek, the ministers of his regime and 277 members of the National Assembly. Only a few months ago, these men had gathered in the historic castle to enact the reforms that started Czechoslovakia on its brief but exhilarating attempt to reconcile Communism with human freedoms. Now, under the threat of Soviet invaders, they came to dismantle their own democracy...
...resolutions passed Saturday will now be presented to federal, state, and local officials, who will decide whether to enact them into...