Word: enacts
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...factor in voter disenchantment (according to the Election Commission, 1,500 of 13,952 candidates in the 1996 elections had criminal records, including murder, rape and kidnapping), but the overwhelming cause of voter apathy has been the inability of one single party to gain enough support to enact positive programs. The main force that allied Congress and the United Front was not common ideology or common programs, but the singular desire to keep the BJP from power. An alliance founded on hatred of a common enemy is uneasy at best, and when the alliance is forged by corrupt, power-hungry...
These futuristic scenarios are not now part of the debate over human cloning, but they should be. Spurred by the fear that maverick physicist Richard Seed, or someone like him, will open a cloning clinic, lawmakers are rushing to enact broad restrictions against human cloning. To date, 19 European nations have signed an anticloning treaty. The Clinton Administration backs a proposal that would impose a five-year moratorium. House majority leader Dick Armey has thrown his weight behind a bill that would ban human cloning permanently, and at least 18 states are contemplating legislative action of their own. "This...
This turned-on scene may not be what Californians envisioned when they voted last November to enact Proposition 215, legalizing the use of marijuana for medical purposes. The beneficiaries were supposed to be AIDS sufferers, people in chronic pain, cancer patients going through chemotherapy and others in medical need. But the law does not specify the medical conditions for which pot is permissible, and it requires only a doctor's oral or written permission, not a formal prescription, to get the drug...
...council should accept a moderator to preside over its meetings (thus freeing the president to participate in debate). The council's Reform Committee adopted all of these proposals last spring, but the reform process was allowed to fizzle out. This year, the council should revisit these proposals and enact them speedily...
...some who have watched her in the past three years, her child-care initiative represents a new attempt at public redemption after wandering more or less by herself in the political wilderness. She tried "reflective meditation" sessions with New Age psychic philosopher Jean Houston, who persuaded her to enact conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi; she talked about tracking the progress of welfare reform for her husband but has done so only from the sidelines in an unofficial capacity; facing the empty nest, she thought of adopting a baby. Says longtime friend Diane Blair, a member of Hillary...