Word: enactment
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...added, however, that the committee had assumed the School could enact the proposed reforms without outside funding...
...movie, based on Erich Segal's number one bestseller, Ryan O'Neil, star of the TV series "Peyton Place," and Ali MacGraw, the Radcliffe girl in "Goodbye Columbus," enact a Harvard-Radcliffe love affair...
Corcoran, in recommending that the city not pass the program and wait instead for Nixon's new Manpower Program, was proposing a move that would abet this tendency. The Manpower program that Corcoran expects Congress and Nixon to enact would take the control of local training programs out of the neighborhoods and give it instead to the mayors, where it would be subject to city bureaucratic maneuverings and political control by the Nixon administration...
...course, is that such a limit would force the courts to speed up -or else provoke public wrath when accused criminals go free. Whether trial deadlines should be defined by federal courts and enforced as a constitutional right is debatable. It may well be preferable for state legislatures to enact statutes setting the deadlines-as in Illinois and California, where defendants are now supposed to be tried within four and two months respectively. But if other states fail to follow suit, the reformers say, then a constitutional rule for speedy trial may be the only way to waken the public...
...religious cause without a license. The U.S. Supreme Court declared for Cantwell: 'The First Amendment declares that Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. The Fourteenth Amendment has rendered the legislatures of the states as incompetent as Congress to enact such laws...