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ACTSee ACT!. act 1. the formally codified result of deliberation by a legislative body; a law, edict, decree, statute, etc. 2. a formal written record of transactions, proceedings, etc., as of a society, committee, or legislative body 3. a major division of a dramatic work 4. a. a short performance of skill, a comic sketch, dance, etc., esp one that is part of a programme of light entertainment b. those giving such a performance 5. Philosophy an occurrence effected by the volition of a human agent, usually opposed at least as regards its explanation to one which is causally determined ACT (in New Zealand) Association of Consumers and Taxpayers: a small political party of the right
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We don't run around doing these
little acts of grace that we ought to be doing. With practiced precision, Watkins and his crew found and fixed a
ruptured engine intake hose that was the source of the problem--one of a
hundred acts of grace under pressure I saw the crew exhibit during what
was, to them, just another routine haul out to sea. |
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