Word: enactment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...awkwardly behind her to answer a telephone call, at the same time mistakenly pushing the "record" button on the machine ?and thereby erasing perhaps five minutes (but not 18) of the taped conversation. Asked in Perry Mason-style by Jill Wine Volner, an Assistant Special Prosecutor, to re-enact this, Miss Woods reached for the imaginary phone?and lifted her left foot. Sirica ordered all the tapes to be examined by a panel of technical experts for "any evidence of tampering...
...most dramatic moment in the court session came when Mrs. Volner asked Miss Woods to re-enact her motions as the "mistake" was made. The secretary quickly demonstrated how she had turned slightly away from her typewriter, made a long stretch, and reached for the phone. Looking down, Mrs. Volner said dryly: "You took your foot off the pedal, didn't you?" Indeed she had lifted her foot. Flustered, Miss Woods declared: "Yes, that's just because I'm here and not doing anything else...
...will do things they would not otherwise do as individuals. The assumption is that relationships are formed before values are agreed upon. But political groups, like friendships, should be based on a shared set of values, a shared understanding. It is in trying to work out cooperatively how to enact what each individual believes that relationships are formed...
...Asked Governors to enact ordinances holding speeds to 50 m.p.h...
...President also urged Congress to enact by December an emergency energy bill that would give him much broader powers. These would include authority to order Daylight Saving Time year round, override temporarily federal, state and local clean-air acts in order to permit more burning of high-polluting coal, and restrict business hours in shopping centers and other enterprises. In addition, the President asked for authority to open up for commercial drilling the naval petroleum reserves at Elk Hills, Calif. All these powers would be given to the President under a bill sponsored by Washington Democratic Senator Henry Jackson...