It takes time for radical ideas to become mundane--38 years if you judge by the Name Equality Act, effective in California as of Jan. 1, 2009.
Opponents claimed the the name change would "act to the detriment of the reputation, brand, attraction and recognition of the Royal Agricultural College and its Alumni".
As its name suggests, opening act Does It Offend You, Yeah? doesn't take itself terribly seriously: The British electro-rock band infuses its ambitious and chaotic music with bass slaps, cowbells, and signifiers of '80s pop, not to mention healthy doses of electronic screeching.
In the Old Testament, God places Adam in the Garden of Eden and has him name the animals, an act of a parent to a child.
"We know that these people act in the name of Islam, but we also know that the vast and overwhelming majority of Muslims here and abroad are decent, law abiding people, " he said.
The Smartpen, made by Netherlands-based LCI , is a digital improvement on the old-fashioned act of signing your name.
Frank, who is one of the name sponsors of the Dodd Frank Act to re-regulate Wall Street after the crash of 2008, suggests the absurdity of a report that warned Wall Street would lose all its financing and investment activity to London and other foreign exchanges.
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This is what certainly happened during the passage of Medicare, Medicaid, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to name a few.
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Sebelius, which served to uphold the 2010 health-care reform with the Orwellian name, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Your health care durable power of attorney should also name one or two successor patient advocates to act in the event the prior-named individuals are unable to act.
On Wednesday, it refused to name a former police officer charged with a major act of theft.
The name change appears to be intended to motivate employees to act more as one team.
Its name is PAEA, or The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act passed by Congress, coincidentally enough, in 2006.
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Yet the DJ, real name Norman Cook, was merely the warm-up act.
Your general durable power of attorney should also name one or two successor attorneys-in-fact to act in the ever prior-named attorneys-in-fact are unable to act.
Under the Lanham Act, a company can sue over claims that name them directly or that merely point to their product in general, as is the case here.
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The bill, whose official name is the Safe, Accountable, Fair, Effective Justice Reinvestment Act of 2015, would create a "presumption in favor of probation as opposed to stiffer penalty such as incarceration" for low-level, first-time and nonviolent crimes.
So Congress should act responsibly and stop playing politics with America's good name.
Years before the name became synonymous with racial segregation laws, Jim Crow was a showbiz act a performance first made famous in New York City by a young white actor named Thomas D.
Mr Bowden, former chief privacy adviser to Microsoft Europe, made a name for himself as a privacy advocate when the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) came into force in the UK in 2000.
Name a band today that's better than (insert '60s or '70s act here).
Sodium pentothal, the trade name for thiopental, is the best-known of a class of barbiturates popularly supposed to act as truth serums.
The name comes from an ancient legend about a woman named Phranang who hoped that this island would act as a wedding suite for her and her new husband, but he was lost at sea and she died waiting for him, broken-hearted.
The duo won the vote for best festival pop act, best live newcomer and anthem of the summer for That's Not My Name.
President Obama knows this is an issue that could split Republicans - and they may be unwilling to agree to any package with his name on it, but it is one area where it is just possible Congress may, eventually, act.
Small schools act like big fish in soccer, winning titles, throwing around money and slapping around bigger-name schools on the pitch.
On February 8, 2012, the NLRB met to affirm the ruling of an NLRB Administrative Law Judge that a company by the name of Noel Canning, a bottler and distributor of Pepsi Cola products, had violated the National Labor Relations Act.
Most health care durable powers of attorney name one or two back-up patient advocates in the event the prior-named patient advocate is unable to act.
Never willing to cede too much ground to dedicated devices, the smartphone world has also gotten into the act, with Windows Phone 8 supporting a special class of camera apps Microsoft has burdened with the confusing name "Lenses" (not to be confused with the City Lens app from its close partner Nokia).
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