Word: enacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff would like cops to enact nobly their virtuous civic functions while refraining from profanity and without threatening to arrest students. While these qualities might be desirable in a proctor or administrator, were they to be adopted, they would be possibly dangerous constraints on the police...
...others, Spencer's sentiments largely drew applause around the globe. Encouraged by the 27,000 letters he received in support of his criticism of the media, Spencer on Thursday met with Chancellor Gordon Brown to discuss plans for a memorial for Diana and ended up pressing the government to enact privacy legislation. Partly as a result of Spencer's oration, many British tabloids had already announced that they would respect the privacy of Princes William and Harry while they are young, committing themselves to publish only those photos of the boys issued by the royals...
There's no reason to celebrate the demise of the Marlboro Man. He's simply living abroad. I've just returned from Guatemala, where an artful TV ad begins with a nighttime storm, stampeding cattle, restless horses and men saddling up to enact a fantasy of real men's work. At the end, machismo served and calm restored, the handsome hero lights up...his Marlboro. Why am I not surprised? Developing nations have long served as dumping grounds for everything from banned pesticides to Dalkon Shields. We've got to invent mechanisms for ensuring that multinational corporations maintain the same...
...success way-off-Broadway that has just moved to larger quarters--playwright and director Moises Kaufman has dramatized that fall with the sort of rapier stylization that Wilde himself would have admired. Nine actors facing the audience in two rows--a kind of oratorio at the Old Bailey--re-enact the legal proceedings and comment on them at the same time, using excerpts from newspaper accounts, biographical works and the memoirs of Wilde and others. It's a dazzling coup de theatre, at once compelling history and chilling human drama...
...response to the memos was woefully inadequate," said KSG student Myrna Perez. "He was able to get off relatively easy. He didn't have to commit to any difficult or hard-to-enact changes...