Word: enactment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only $17,500, yet she is paying $1,472 a year in taxes. These rates have moved some 12,000 Massachusetts homeowners to join a mostly blue-collar group called "Fair Share." It aims to get residential property taxed at lower levels than commercial and industrial sites and to enact a "circuit breaker" law to rebate up to $500 of any property taxes that exceed 8% of the payer's taxable income...
...credit, the Turnhalle leadership has already had some success in moderating the views of the territory's whites, many of them of German descent. As soon as he took office late last year, the Pretoria-appointed administrator general, Justice Marthinus Steyn, began to enact a number of reforms, making equal pay mandatory for blacks and whites, removing the hated pass and immorality laws that still rule the lives of blacks in South Africa, and ending a ban on political meetings. Mudge, a pilot who tirelessly flies his own plane around territory, told an audience of grim whites...
Vellucci believes the present bills now before the House and Senate do not allow enough freedom to local governments who wish to enact stricter regulatory standards, McKinnon said...
...that such a stereotyping detracts little from the comic narrative; Demme provides just enough twists in the plot to sustain suspense despite these superficial characterizations. Like the television show Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Demme uses stereotypes self-consciously, parodying them at the same time that he favors them to enact his story. Demme only occasionally falters on the tight-wire between moderation and excess, when he over-ambitiously turns on the small-town ideology of the American Dream. Stereotyping works well as a comic device; it becomes banal as a harbinger of a serious message. Summarizing Demme's position, Papa...
...prevent just that, the U.S. would use the new borrowings to buy its own money. This would give the dollar at least a temporary lift and allow the U.S. time to reduce its budget and trade deficits and to enact a policy for developing and conserving energy-all of which will be necessary to restore America's currency to its old eminence...