Word: enactment
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...taskforce recommended that Congress enact legislation requiring the President “promptly to submit to [it] an official copy of all signing statements.” Currently the statements are often quietly filed in the federal record...
...pitch blackness before dawn one morning in late may, four boats belonging to Diego Crespo Sevilla chug out of a port in southwest Spain to enact an elaborate marine ambush. About 50 fishermen drop hundreds of red markers, attached to nets, which bob for nearly 2 km along the water's surface, forming rows as neat as traffic lanes on a highway. Then they maneuver their boats to form a wide square, and they wait. As the sun rises an hour [an error occurred while processing this directive] later, a drama begins to unfold. Nearly 200 huge tuna glide through...
...very inclusive initiative: any Latin American country could be invited to join the two leading nations in the western hemisphere in this agreement. To be eligible, countries would need to adopt pro-poor, growth-inducing economic reforms that spur competition and open markets. They would also be required to enact political reforms that strengthen democratic practices and institutions. It could be a powerful stimulus for positive change, since few countries in the region could afford to be left out of an economic arrangement that included Brazil...
...professors also said they believed that Calderón would be able to enact more of his economic reform agenda unlike Fox, whose plans were consistently blocked by the Mexican Congress...
European envoys hope to elicit the regime's answer before July's G-8 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Vienna group agreed that if Iran fails to accede to the world's demands, the matter will return to the Security Council, which would enact unspecified punitive measures...