Word: state
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...Benham, former chair of the Neighborhood Coalition, Healy said he would make sure that the center was docketed for next year's budget. "I will make every effort to include the total funding request in the 1991 fiscal budget," Healy wrote. "However, given the severe fiscal constraints which the state is placing on the city, the total may have to be spread across two years...
...savings package included several items that have encountered opposition from public employee unions, including a provision that would require state and municipal workers to contribute more toward their health insurance premiums...
...change in climate is partly due to Gorbachev's democratizing efforts. Those measures have permitted grass-roots resistance to unpopular reforms. "The Soviet Union," said Migranyan, "is acting like a democracy without really being one." Above all, said Migranyan, his country needed a model to make the transition from state-owned to free- market economy. "Nobody knows how to do it," he said, including Gorbachev, whose government lacks "conceptual ideas and clarity about what to do." Migranyan said the short-term remedy was either food or force. As long as there was sausage in the shops, the government had room...
...Laurel's impatience and his ambition. Soon after Doy became Aquino's Vice President, a senior administration official laid it on the line during a meeting in Washington. "Look, pal," he said. "we support Mrs. Aquino. We don't care who you go to -- the Pentagon or the State Department or whoever -- the answer is the same." But the Vice President hasn't stopped trying. As the latest coup was under way, Laurel called it a display of democracy in action. Replied the U.S. State Department's deputy spokesman Richard Boucher: "We clearly do not view it that...
...microns by which progress toward peace in the Middle East is measured, last week's announcement by Egypt was a significant advance. With the Palestine Liberation Organization's approval, Cairo formally accepted in principle U.S. Secretary of State James Baker's five-point plan for talks between Palestinians and Israel...