Word: capping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...felt-covered basin for six quarters, nine dimes and a tribe of pennies. "C'mon folks, if you give a little more, I won't play so badly. I teach at Julliard, really. Here's a little Mozart for you." He stops after four measures, scratches at his cap and uses the bow as a pointer to count the coins in the case. "Thanks folks. More." Outside the glass door, all the limos have gone home...
...were able, this year, to survive the governor's 4-per-cent spending cap without laying off city employees," he added...
...cap imposed by Massachusetts Gov. Edward J. King last spring limited municipal spending increases to 4 per cent. Taxes did not rise in Cambridge last year...
...plane's engine coughs and sputters, its pilot sitting at the controls with a frayed Red Sox cap and a parachute. "Let's go," he yells. The jump master arranges us in a small Cessna with flaking paint. I sit next to the pilot, my back to the controls, staring out the window of the door through which I will soon exit. I watch as the plane rumbles down the runway, lifts and spirals over the center, the lakes, the large clumps and bands of trees and the long strings of high tension wires. The master standing at the door...
David Rosen, an attorney for the union, said last week it had sent a letter to the dean of Harvard College requesting a boycott of Cotrell and Leonard, the Albany, N.Y., cap and gown manufacturer. But neither Dean Fox nor other officials said they had received such a letter...