Word: impound
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...boot is part of a streamlined effort to collect delinquent parking fines, made possible by a statute passed as part of the 1982 state budget, which allows city officials to impound cars directly instead of waiting for a court order, Teso said...
...tried to float the idea of giving the President authority to impound funds appropriated by Congress. That would undercut the Budget Act of 1974, which was passed after President Nixon repeatedly used impoundment to control the flow of federal spending in defiance of congressional wishes. Not surprisingly, Democrats were cool to the idea, saying that the proposal was just a copout for the Republicans...
...final $26,000 invoice for the printing order. When Edwards approached the Canadian Department of External Affairs for some needed muscle, he was informed that he would have little luck in collecting the debt. "They told me," says Edwards, "the Russians had immunity." Undeterred, Edwards considered trying to impound the ice skates of the visiting Soviet hockey team. In 1973 he persuaded a local court to order the seizure of a Soviet airliner, but that endeavor fizzled under pressure from a number of less determined Canadian government agencies...
...border skirmishes that led to the 1962 war with China. With pugnacious Irani as its managing director, the Statesman also criticized Gandhi's emergency measures. In return, the government has confiscated Irani's passport, forced the paper to miss several editions through censorship delays and tried to impound one of the Statesman's presses...
...system as a means of battling the White House and the big spenders in Congress to achieve a balanced budget. Liberal Democrats believe that the reform would enable them to reshape Republican budgets along more progressive lines. The bill would drastically limit the President's authority to impound funds-refusing to spend money appropriated in bills that had become law. Although the political infighting over budget making is bound to go on, the skirmishing will at least take place within a more systematic framework. That is a prospect that every politician-and taxpayer-can applaud...