Word: enactment
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...tourists were to descend with dollars and cameras? Would the Heisenberg gaze of strangers shame the ethnic purifiers and spoil the snipers' aim? Would commercialism defeat tribalism? Or maybe Disney could take over the war and give the fighters blanks and dummy mortar shells to fire: they would enact their hatreds daily as a permanent tourist attraction...
With the blessings of House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other leading Republican conservatives, the Christian Coalition unveiled its "Contract with the American Family," a 10-point social and political program that the group wants Congress to enact. Among its controversial provisions: a constitutional amendment allowing prayer in schools and other public places, new limits on abortions, restrictions on computer and cable-TV access to sexually explicit materials and the abolition of federal aid for the arts...
...TRYING TO ENACT THEIR CONTRACT with America in 100 days [Congress, April 10], Republican members of Congress exhausted their minds, frayed their tempers and strained their family relationships under the relentless prodding of the Speaker of the House. When medieval monks were subjected to an ascetic life of physical and mental strain, they suffered from hallucinations. Perhaps Republicans have come to believe that Newt Gingrich is King...
...They are under psychologica: duress. They come out just wanting to lick everyone like puppies," he says of the usually ferocious canines. "Once they sensed that they didn't find what they were looking for, they felt like they had failed their owners. [The owners] would enact phony successful rescues to try to cheer them...
Authored by Cambridge United for Smoking Prevention, the twenty-on page proposed smoking ordinance would enact the toughest smoking restrictions ever implemented in Cambridge...