Word: enactment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal level, there is an added argument against rent control that may yet enable President Nixon to stop the congressional drive to enact it. Even some liberal economists contend that adapting federal standards to the bewildering variety of local housing conditions across the country is an administrative impossibility. But local laws are another matter, particularly in communities where a housing shortage has created an overwhelming temptation for landlords to gouge. In those areas, at least for a limited period of rapid inflation, rent controls may be an inescapable necessity...
...only five votes. The Administration had been counting on the House to cut out the rent-control provision, but last week Republican members of the House Banking Committee privately warned John T. Dunlop, the President's Cost of Living Council director, that the lower chamber might well enact even farther-reaching controls than the Senate...
...forces "arrested" four men attempting to enter their compound. Released a few minutes later, the men were paraded at gun point with their hands up past whirring cameras, then let go. Learning that one photographer missed a shot of the men leaving, AIM guards forced the "prisoners" to re-enact their release...
...abandoned. Chesser has suggested that the Government buy Penn Central's right of way, repair the sadly deteriorated tracks and then let Penn Central trains -and perhaps others-use the tracks for a fee. Before the 90-day respite expires, Congress may well be moved to enact compulsory arbitration legislation tor all transportation industry disputes lest there be more eleventh-hour crises'. The Administration prepared such a bill last year but abandoned support for it after the Teamsters endorsed Nixon's candidacy for reelection...
Cambridge residents should urge state legislators to enact a strengthened Segel proposal, and petition Congressmen and Senators to pass a similar Federal...