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Cambridge survived those cuts relatively unscathed--at least in comparison to other Massachusetts cities. Even so, the city officials have been forced to cut more than $5.1 million from their budgets and institute a citywide hiring freeze to help curb costs...
Thus for the fourth time in five years Washington had failed to produce a budget by its own, self-imposed deadline. All concerned concede that Washington-style budgetmaking is a disgrace. Ideas for rationalizing the process, to curb both spending mania and cliff-hanging melodrama, have been as numerous as attempts to cure the common cold -- and just as ineffectual...
...possible to make smoking despised, it should be possible for drug use. And it should be possible to refocus some civic crusades. The antitax movement was an important political force, but it was too blunt and undifferentiated. To reduce the excesses of government bureaucracy, it is not enough to curb its spending powers. It is far more important (and more difficult) to monitor performance and press for efficiency...
Harvard police Lt. Lawrence J. Murphy, the officer in charge of protecting the prince, was within 10 feet of Aziz at the time of the threat, Gerstein said. Murphy took no action against the Saudi, and instead helped him into a limousine waiting at the curb, Gerstein said...
...without resort to force. The President has danced around this objective for weeks, but the evidence grows that merely restoring the status quo ante will not yield "security and stability" in the gulf, one of Bush's publicly stated goals. As he told Congress last week, America wants "to curb the proliferation of chemical, biological, ballistic-missile and, above all, nuclear technologies...