Word: enactments
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...many Greeks, the conservative Caramanlis has served as a comforting balance to the leftist Papandreou. With Caramanlis in power, they reasoned, Papandreou could never enact his party's "strategic targets," which include withdrawing from NATO and closing down all U.S. bases in Greece. "It was a coup de theatre, in total disrespect for accepted political practices," said a stunned Greek newspaper editor...
Cuts causing so much pain would be difficult to enact under any circumstances. Reagan's allies in Congress have been warning him for weeks that the task will be impossible unless the public can be convinced that the military is sharing fully in the sacrifices all Americans must make to reduce the ominous $200 billion budget deficit. But the military savings that Reagan and Weinberger agreed on would leave the Administration $25 billion short of its goal of halving the deficit to $100 billion by fiscal...
Budget planners are talking up such recommendations as a new attempt to slash or eliminate federal operating subsidies for mass-transit systems, enact new restrictions on Government-subsidized student loans, consolidate and reduce many federal grants to localities, and perhaps abolish the Department of Education. But they are pointedly not discussing any further slashes in programs such as food stamps and welfare that make up the so-called social safety net. Vows one planner: "There will be virtually nothing in this budget that can be construed as an attack on the poor...
...Kennesaw, Georgia, requires the head of every household to possess a gun and ammunition. In fact, the town went so far as to "supply just about any sort of firearm" to those who couldn't buy them. It is a wonder that they did not enact mandatory target practice. This law represents not just a legal response to local gun control, but an armed response. It is as if the NRA is readying itself for battle. Literally...
...begin drawing it, but by then they are normally in a lower tax bracket. Home mortgage deductions amount to $25 billion annually, state and local taxes $22 billion, charitable contributions $13 billion. Many of these tax benefits are so widely accepted that a true flat tax seems impossible to enact. Even modifying any of the existing provisions is certain to stir resistance from those who would be hurt. For the individual taxpayer, notes retiring New York Congressman Barber Conable, "if the bottom line is that his taxes went up, that is not reform. That is fraud...