A key factor dates back to the passage of securities legislation during the Great Depression era.
As late as mid-August, state-controlled newspapers in China were still calling for passage of the security bill.
But not even that would be enough to ensure the final passage of a security agreement the United States had pressed to have in hand before next year.
It all happened – very rapidly and without time for dissent – with the passage of rushed security and anti-protest measures adopted by the city council on 18 January 2012.
Medvedev's move followed the passage of UN security council resolution 1929, approved in June 2010, that banned the sale to Iran of "battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, large caliber artillery systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles or missile systems".
No better example can be given on the strength of bipartisanship than with the passage of Social Security Reform in 1983.
won a living wage, weekends and a 40-hour work week, pensions for retirement, and the passage of Social Security and Medicare that ensured a retirement free of poverty.
Weiss's complaint admits neither he nor any other private lawyer discovered the alleged fraud, and credits The Wall Street Journal and other newspapers with unveiling a scam that the complaint calls so classic that the prevalence of such scams in the 1920s helped lead to the passage of the Securities Act of 1933.
The protests followed the passage of a new security bill, granting sweeping powers to the armed forces during states of emergency.
In the United States such measures were not adopted at the federal level until passage of the Social Security Act of 1935.
