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This act was amended on January 3, 1980 by Public Law 96-184, " The National Capital Transportation Amendment of 1979 " ( also known as the Stark-Harris Act ), which authorized additional funding of $ 1. 7 billion to permit the completion of of the system as provided under the terms of a full funding grant agreement executed with WMATA in July 1986, which required 25 % to be paid from local funds.
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This, he was sure, was the way they would act ; ;
That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.
Lincoln saw that the act of secession made the issue for the Union a vital one: Whether it was a Union of sovereign citizens that should continue to live, or an association of sovereign states that must fall prey either to `` anarchy or despotism ''.
If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.
The first act of Adoniram and Samuel on reaching Calcutta was to report at the police station, a necessity when landing in East India Company territory.
As it was the custom of that alert colony to take over the property of persons asking for protection, this was an act roughly equivalent to throwing open the door to a pack of wolves and saying `` Come and get it ''.
the mere fact that he was selected, though as a substitute, to act as interlocutor or moderator for it, or perhaps we should say with Buck as ' father of the act ', is in itself a difficult phase of his development to grasp.
Milton was to act as the archfool, the supreme wit, the lightly bantering pater, Pater Liber, who could at once trip lightly over that which deserved such treatment, or could at will annihilate the common enemies of the college gathering, and with words alone.
In each case there was an initial act of violence.
The public appeal by the new Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Cicognani, for renewed efforts toward Eastern and Western reunion was still another remarkable act.
He did not really want to kill, but as in the sexual act, there was a moment when the impulse took over and could not be downed, even while you watched yourself giving way to it.
Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.
Eugene was not entirely silent, or openly rude -- unless asking Harold to move to another chair and placing himself in the fauteuil that creaked so alarmingly was an act of rudeness.
Its building was first proposed in 1791, when a group of citizens, mostly Newburyport men, petitioned the General Court for an act of incorporation.
In one debate he supported the freedom of judgment as opposed to dogma, in another he held that the practice of science was in fact an act of religious worship.
In establishing criterion measurements, it was therefore thought best to broaden the scope beyond the reading act itself.
Even though in civil rights legislation in 1957 and 1960 the provision for the Attorney General to act was eliminated, should we nevertheless support such a clause??
This recommendation was based on the fact that the hymen was not the only barrier to smooth consummation of the sex act.
These trials were properly termed `` political cases '' in that the trial itself was a political act producing political consequences.
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To be eligible to borrow from a Bank for Cooperatives, a cooperative must be an association in which farmers act together in processing and marketing farm products, purchasing farm supplies, or furnishing farm business services, and must meet the requirements set forth in the Farm Credit Act of 1933, as amended.
The third amended the enabling act for creation of the Lamar county Hospital District, for which a special constitutional amendment previously was adopted.
Previously, the Canadian federal constitution could be amended by solitary act of the Canadian or British parliaments, by formal or informal agreement between the federal and provincial governments, or even simply by adoption as ordinary custom of an oral convention or unwritten tradition that was perceived to be the best way to do something.
The Act was last amended in the year 2009 and all the financial institutes are following this act.
Finally, this act amended section 51 of the British North America Act of 1867 to guarantee that no province would have fewer members of the House of Commons than it did senators.
Initially, each of the three service secretaries maintained quasi-cabinet status, but the act was amended on August 10, 1949, to assure their subordination to the Secretary of Defense.
In 1906 the Burke Act ( also known as the forced patenting act ) further amended the GAA to give the Secretary of the Interior the power to issue allotees a patent in fee simple to people classified ‘ competent and capable .’ The criteria for this determination is unclear but meant that allotees deemed ‘ competent ’ by the Secretary of the Interior would have their land taken out of trust status, subject to taxation, and could be sold by the allottee.
Approval of the act, which was amended in 1980 and 1992, represented the first time the United States had a broad-based historic preservation policy.
" Since the act was first passed in 1968 it has been amended to include sex, familial status, and disability.
The State Legislature amended their original act in 1927 to include certain academic subjects and in 1929, the Legislature appropriated funds to establish the college as a branch of the University of Montana ( later renamed the Montana University System ).
Finally, on January 29, 1839, the original February 15 act was amended, stating that Blackford County shall " enjoy the rights and privileges " of an independent county.
He amended the militia act allowing the use of all available volunteers and ordered enhanced training of these raw recruits, despite opposition from the provincial legislature.
Three years later, in 1846, the act was amended to make all that part of the state " embraced between the north boundary of township 49, the line between ranges 37 and 38 west and Lake Superior, together with islands in said lake west of the county of Schoolcraft, shall be laid off as a separate county, to be known and designated as the County of Houghton.
Congress amended the act in 1955 to add a formula that uses rural and farm population factors to allocate the annual appropriation for agricultural experiment stations among the states.
In the process, the Bill of Rights 1689 was amended by the Defamation Bill which became act by Royal Assent in July 1996.
Congress amended this act on June 1, 1954, replacing " Armistice " with " Veterans ," and it has been known as Veterans Day since.
The Immorality Amendment Act, 1950 ( Act No. 21 of 1950 ) amended the 1927 act to forbid unmarried sexual intercourse between " Europeans " and anyone not " European ".
The Immorality Amendment Act, 1969 ( Act No. 57 of 1969 ) amended the 1957 act to introduce or expand a number of offences.
In 1933 the U. S. Congress amended the act by the passage of the Emergency Banking Relief Act which extended its scope regarding the hoarding of gold to include any declared national emergency and not just those declared solely during times of war.
In 1938, Congress amended the act to create the Federal National Mortgage Association, more commonly known as " Fannie Mae ", to help mortgage lenders gain further access to capital for mortgage loans.
The act has been amended several times, especially through provisions in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, and the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.
It amended the electoral law, brought in a new education act, improved the water-supply and sewerage systems, appointed stipendiary magistrates, regulated the liability of employers with regard to injuries to workmen, and made law other useful acts.
He proposed to do away with the recent increase in duties, to bring in an amended land act, and to create a body to control the railways free of political influence.
By the spring of 1918, the government had amended the act so that there were no exemptions, which left many English Canadians opposed as well.
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