Word: enactments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said she believes that the ability to know when to enact social reforms depends on that type of timing. If the people are ready for a reform and pushing for it, a president who has been reborn can sense that the social climate is ready for new legislation...
...bloc has gained considerable strength. Since the 1973 election that left the Social Democrats with only 156 of Parliament's 350 seats, they have had to govern as a minority, relying on the support of 19 Communist votes and occasional deals with other opposition Deputies in order to enact key legislation. According to the latest polls, the Social Democrats' support is down to 40.5% of the voters (compared with the 43.6% the party won in 1973), while the nonsocialist bloc has climbed to 53.5% (up from...
...mannequins in department-store windows traditionally are posed in attitudes of stiff propriety. But a countertrend is under way at some fashionable stores, spurred by young window dressers who group their figures to enact little immobile dramas of sex, bizarre fantasy, even suicide-just about anything that will make a jaded passer-by stop and look. Explains Candy Pratts, 26-year-old window designer for Bloomingdale's in New York: "You've got to reach anybody who walks...
...sounds like a story out of the Depression: depositors frightened about the safety of their savings make panicky mass withdrawals, threatening the stability of the institutions involved. Finally, worried legislators enact a freeze on deposits-a la Franklin Roosevelt's Bank Holiday of 1933-leaving tens of thousands of savers wondering when, if ever, they can get their money out. It happened late last month in Mississippi, and the case serves as a reminder that there are still some holes in the vaunted system of federal insurance that generally makes the great bulk of deposits in banks and savings...
...white and black alike−were seeking to interpret the soul-cry of rage that came from Soweto. Some whites saw in the violence a nightmarish vision of South Africa's future if the government ever eases its rigid rule over the blacks. There were demands that Parliament enact emergency legislation to prevent a recurrence of the trouble−demands that Vorster will surely reject, if only because the country's existing laws seem strong enough...