Word: enactments
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...organization called CAUSE (for Campaign Against Utility Service Exploitation). CAUSE is backing a bill in the California legislature that would set special low rates for both individual and industrial customers who use minimal amounts of gas. An effort is also under way in the legislature to enact an involved scheme under which taxes would be eliminated on the surcharge levied by SoCal Gas on consumers, so that SoCal Gas would not have to collect almost $2 for every $1 to be advanced to Arco. Nonetheless, the SoCal Gas-Arco deal reflects some hard realities: 1) the nation currently faces...
...Repeal of two federal statutes that have enabled 36 states to enact misnamed Fair Trade laws. These laws permit manufacturers to set minimum retail prices on nationally advertised merchandise; they prevent storekeepers from discounting prices on products ranging from bow ties to TV sets. Sweeping such laws away would save consumers $2.1 billion annually, estimates Republican Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, chief sponsor of the federal repeal bill...
...will go in communities across the country for the next 20 months, as the East and the South re-enact the major and some minor events of the Revolutionary period and the Middle West and Far West commemorate their regional history...
...MIDDLE WEST: One of a handful of the region's communities that date from the 18th century, Detroit will re-enact on July 24 the 1701 landing of its founder, French Explorer Antoine Laumet la Mothe Cadillac. But many Midwestern communities that want to emphasize regional history in their Bicentennial celebrations have had to draw on the events of a century after the Revolution. In Indianapolis, the state museum is constructing a diorama portraying the exploits of Frontiersman George Rogers Clark. A group in Chicago is restoring several turn-of-the-century mansions that were once owned by such...
Some mainland projects are based on the West's Spanish heritage. Sponsored by Arizona and California, some 240 men, women and children will leave Horcasitas, Mexico, on Sept. 25 for a nine-month trek by horse and wagon to re-enact the 1775-76 expedition that settled the San Francisco Bay area and established Mission Dolores and the Presidio. Along the way, the wagons will stop for Bicentennial celebrations in several Southwestern cities. San Jose is recreating a 19th century ambience in six square blocks and twelve buildings, including a firehouse, hardware store and bank. Los Angeles has lined...