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Word: enacts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Social progress must keep pace with expansion," he said, "but under the State Constitution, which requires a balanced budget, a special session of the General Court must now be called to vote new taxes of $40 to $50 million." He would hesitate, he said, to enact a program involving such heavy taxation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOP Attacks Waste, Promises Economy At Local Forum | 10/24/1958 | See Source »

...plans to the honest, but not necessarily efficient or interested departments. If a department is uninterested in the House-orientation proposed for non-honors tutorial, or if it is wildly enthusiastic about the restrictions to be imposed on the content of pass candidacy, it gets free rein to enact the latter impulse and receives no push in the direction of the former...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CEP Tea Party | 5/6/1958 | See Source »

First, it must enact a customs union of the islands. Tariffs are now a jumble. Antigua collects duties on goods in transshipment to St. Kitts. which in turn collects another duty upon arrival (smuggling is commonplace). Jamaica's industries are protectively walled off. will presumably suffer from competition from other islands. The new law will have to eliminate these barriers, create a common market, set common tariffs, provide for negotiating commercial treaties with other nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEST INDIES: First Election | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4--Sen. McClellan (D-Ark.) today called James R. Hoffa's election as president of the Teamsters Union a challenge to Congress to enact laws that will protect rank and file union members from "gangsterism and racketeer control...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: New Student Rioting in Warsaw Quelled by Police, Local Militia; McClellan Blasts Hoffa Election | 10/5/1957 | See Source »

Most observers feel that although the legislature has the theoretical right to enact these proposals, both would be held unconstitutional because they would violate the intent of the integration decision here...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Newspaper Hints Faubus Will Summon Legislature | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

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