Word: enactment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that nobody wanted, the Japanese-U.S. trade impasse is dangerous. Any effort by Fukuda to reduce Japanese import barriers further will meet fierce opposition from Japanese farmers, businessmen and workers. On the U.S. side, the Carter Administration must win some significant concessions from Japan soon, or Congress may enact highly restrictive limits on Japanese goods sold in the U.S. At week's end Ushiba was headed back to Japan for consultations, and officials in the Japanese government were mentioning Jan. 20 -the day after Congress returns from its holiday recess-as a deadline for coming up with concessions...
Germans are caught in a painful damned-if-they-do, damned-if-they-don't dilemma with their terrorists. If they enact tough laws against radical violence, they are "Nazis again." If they do not, social order might fray to the point that real and dangerous repression would become inevitable. As John Donne wrote. "It takes so little poison to crack the crystal...
...five top legislative priorities, it has taken a back seat to the energy issue and the Panama Canal treaty. The President realized that Congress could deal with only so much legislation at a time. So his letters to key congressmen urging them with his blessing to enact health cost control legislation were in vain. It has since become obvious that the administration's hospital cost control bill will not become law this year...
Known for leading an investigation of the Cambridge Housing Administration (CHA) and free of obligations to any organized political groups, Lawrence W. Frisoli, one of four new city councilors, says he will use his popular support to enact his ambitious policies...
...dangerous dependence on imported oil?a piece of legislation likely to take money out of just about everybody's pocket. Their situation was aptly described by Indiana's John Brademas, the House Democratic whip: "It is tough enough with separation of powers and the absence of disciplined parties to enact legislation when there is some national consensus. It is really difficult when half the people don't even believe there is a problem...