Word: help
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...next question was how to pay for them. Though the Governor promised to help the city find ways to come up with the estimated $340 million it will cost to add 5,000 recruits, he offered no money up front. That confronted ) Dinkins with the prospect of proposing more taxes and service cuts just two months after winning the city council's approval for a record $800 million in new local taxes. As one step, he promised to consider a proposal by city council speaker Peter Vallone for a 25 cents surcharge on lottery tickets...
...lush with 300 species of plants. At its periphery, tree ferns and bromeliads flank a stream that leads to a mountainside flood-plain forest and an open vista of tropical savanna. There, plants from Africa, Australia and South America bask in a less humid atmosphere, where bees and hummingbirds help pollinate plants and a colony of termites aids in the decomposition of dying material...
...support of the Shatalin program, his proposed changes in the text suggest he also has a certain ambivalence about taking the final grand leap into a market economy. With tensions mounting across the country, whether cigarette riots in provincial Russia or border skirmishes in the Caucasus, Gorbachev cannot help being concerned about what might result from added chaos in the economy. Last week he sent out a presidential telegram to regional leaders, warning that perestroika would amount only to "good intentions" unless governments at all levels took steps to strengthen "law, order and discipline." It was a signal to batten...
...historic experiment at the National Institutes of Health, a four-year-old girl is given new genes that could help supply the enzyme she needs to live...
...goal is more subtle. "If the only problem is that he fell in love, this is not the place for him," says Father John Loftus, a psychologist who runs Southdown, a treatment center in Aurora, Ont. "There's nothing psychiatrically abnormal about that." Where a cleric often needs help, says Loftus, is in his "professing one thing and living another." Some priests deny they have a conflict; others are tortured by guilt. For some, sexual activity may be a signal of other problems, such as burnout, depression or loneliness...