Word: upon
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...TIME: Most novels are past-tense stories: Once upon a time. "Shopgirl" is written in the present tense, like a movie script or an anecdote told...
...proposal to endorse the easement has been on the council agenda for several weeks. The council is expected to act upon it soon...
...intolerable risk by the ungoverned conditions of the freshman pledging event, a risk compounded by the paucity of residential options for MIT first-years, and a risk that could have been avoided if previous studies and warnings of these life-threatening risks had been acknowledged and acted upon by the institution...
...unsatisfied. For although RU-486 has been completely cleared for public consumption, that clearance is tampered with a long list of restrictions that pro-choice supporters claim reduce its effectiveness for those who would wish to use it. These advocates assert that the stipulations that the FDA has placed upon the pill will serve to counter the majority of the pill's positive effects...
...Building this bridge to corporate control is a flawed set of campaign finance laws so porous corporations don't even have to do anything illegal to gain undue influence. This whole edifice, built upon a shoddy Supreme Court decision in Buckley v. Valeo equating money with speech, has given rise to a system in which the only speech that matters is money...