Word: act
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...area of crime prevention, Bush emphasized two major successes of his administration: The passage of the National Concealed Weapons Authorization Act of 2001, and the successful implementation of its pledge to conduct 1,000 federal executions in its first 1,000 days. "The right to carry concealed handguns is now ensured for all Americans, thanks to the efforts of this administration," said Attorney General Charlton Heston...
...requirements for ground troops too, such as the lengthy and difficult peace-support missions in the Balkans. These may not seem like war, but the troops are armed and ready. They prefer to use presence, maneuver and intimidation to accomplish their purpose rather than active combat. But they can act, and they sometimes must defend themselves...
...troops will then fly into a foreign hot spot on huge, ungainly tilt-rotor aircraft. The C-130-size "quad tilt-rotor" will be able to carry nearly 100 troops more than 2,000 miles. The rotors, perched at the ends of a pair of big wings, act like a helicopter's for takeoffs and landings, eliminating the need for runways. But once airborne, the rotors tilt forward and pull the plane through the sky at more than 350 m.p.h...
...There are good reasons for thinking this impulse will not lead to new radical groups' achieving political power and implementing a coherent political agenda. Though, in the process of trying to influence the course of events, the global left may invent an entirely new form of governance that will act as a strong brake on multinational corporations and the governments that serve their interests...
GLASSMAN O.K., something is changing. What is changing is that people are at last beginning to act in a rational way. They are bidding up the prices of stocks because, my gosh, stocks in the long term are no riskier than bonds...They have learned something about stocks, which I think Bob would admit and we certainly believe is true. For all these years, they have acted in a kind of irrational way. Now they have learned something, which happens to be true, which is that in the long term, stocks are not all that volatile, and they return more...