Word: enacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...internal policy, one for foreign policy. The Laniel government is a precarious internal majority, essentially a right-of-center group. The Socialists will not join it. On a vote for EDC, the Socialists would support Laniel, but the Gaullists would desert him. Without the Gaullists, the government cannot enact its internal policy. Without the Socialists, it cannot enact a "European" foreign policy...
...news conference last week. President Eisenhower seemed to realize fully these facts of political life. "I have lost skirmishes before.'' he said, indicating that he expects to win the big battle for control of Congress next November. The only way to win votes, he said, is to enact a program that the mass of American people would say is a good one and to find candidates who merit the support of independent voters...
...zinc and 50% of lead imports come from Canada and Mexico. In any case, the Tariff Commission can only boost the tariff by about a cent a Ib.; what the miners want is a sliding scale that would push tariffs up as prices fall, something that only Congress can enact...
Congress [should] enact legislation to prevent the sale of bituminous coal below the cost of production...
...suddenly under attack? Because recent years have seen what Secretary Dulles called a "trend toward trying to use the treatymaking power to effect internal social changes." Example: a Truman-appointed committee suggested in 1947 that certain provisions of the United Nations Charter gave the Federal Government power to enact "civil rights" legislation which could not have been enacted before the charter was signed...