Word: enacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while the Senate is in recess (Senators are now enjoying a 10-day Memorial Day break). His action puts Hormel in the job until the end of the next Senate session, which conveniently coincides with the end of the Clinton presidency. With Republicans currently in disarray over how to enact their budget- and tax-cutting agenda, reports TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson, the President decided this could be an easy political pickup for him at little political cost -- and with solid appeal to some of his more liberal constituencies. "Clinton knows Republicans can't spend much time screaming about this...
...contradictory positions on gun control a House Republican aide called "too complicated for Kafka." To let the issue cool, House G.O.P. leaders have put off debate until the middle of June in the hopes that lobbying by the N.R.A. and the passage of time will make it easier to enact less stringent legislation. Speaker Dennis Hastert has expressed a willingness to tighten gun laws: increasing the purchase age from 18 to 21 and requiring background checks for all sales at gun shows. But Democrats fear majority leader Dick Armey and whip Tom DeLay will work to declaw any final legislation...
...thespian coming-of-age time, the moment when it happens or it doesn't. An ingenue either aims for Jodie Fosteresque acting glory or is condemned to a Peter Pan-ish purgatory, a high-voiced, short-pants-wearing Urkel-ish hell in which she is damned to re-enact the clumsy tics of adolescence forever...
...must be present before we escalate our forces in the area. If Kosovo cannot come to peace, there is no point fighting a war there. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has clearly articulated a set of goals necessary before any cease-fire; it is up to NATO to enact policies which will achieve them...
...however, politicians across the country rant and rave about how the American people are as well off as ever before. The economy is booming, education is improving. This is the perfect time to enact environmental reform...