Word: act
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...prominent person who would invigorate the ticket is former Maine Sen. George J. Mitchell. Mitchell has extensive legislative and government experience: He was the Senate majority leader for five years. In the Senate, he worked tirelessly on the Clean Air Act, the Iran-Contra affair and health care legislation. Most importantly, Mitchell was a prominent mediator and architect of the Good Friday agreement in Northern Ireland. His efforts in this area have shown him to be a selfless public servant dedicated to peaceful resolution of the most prickly international issues. "[Mitchell] makes it a special ticket," said Boston Mayor Thomas...
While much of the responsibility for teaching kids how to act with the police must fall to parents, a growing number of organized groups are trying to make such training a part of every child's education. In New York City an organization called 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care has been swamped with requests for survival workshops, conducted in schools and community organizations. More than 5,000 people, mostly youth, have attended so far. In Chicago, Michael Owens, 17, grew up amid the gangs and drugs of the Englewood neighborhood and had a typical attitude toward the police...
This new flow of contraband south from Windsor began in the name of water conservation. In the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, passed in 1994, Congress mandated that toilets sold in the U.S. use no more than 1.6 gal. of water per flush--less than half the flow they had employed before. Soon, as Americans moved into spanking-new homes or replaced their cracked old gurglers with the swishy new models, they found themselves forced to flush and flush again--drowning the supposed benefits of water conservation. And then they had to go hunting for the plunger. Soon they wanted...
Trouble was, the 1994 law made selling them illegal in the U.S., punishable by a fine or even imprisonment. But where there's a law, there's a loophole, and here's the one in the toilet act: it's legal to buy a high-flow toilet in Canada and drive it back into the U.S. And that's exactly what scores of Americans now do each week...
...been too slow and cautious in moves toward reforming the banking system and other aspects of Japan's economy may now have to accept a period of even less change. Without someone uniting the different factions of the Liberal Democratic party, the government is even less likely to act decisively...