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...voters in the City of Cambridge havechanged," said Walter Sullivan, reached at homeafter the count. "It was a vote to offset rentcontrol, and that's what...
...Inflation has been flatter in the past few years but now is rising," he said. Weissbacker added that the Dining Services could not improve its efficiency enough this year to completely offset the increased costs...
...well as Democrats -- refused to let him gut popular domestic programs to pay for his huge tax cuts. Instead, the Government decided to have it both ways: tax reduction as well as big boosts in defense spending and increasing middle- class entitlements (notably Social Security and farm supports), offset to a small degree by cuts in programs for the poor. The resulting deficit spending has spurred economic growth, but not sufficiently to cover...
...reduction in chemical weapons that Congress had long since ordered him to make. His offer of economic assistance to Poland and Hungary, as they attempt to loosen the shackles of the Communist economic system, seemed to be just another example of big talk and small deeds -- an impression offset only slightly when Congress pressured him to increase a proposed grant to Poland from a measly $115 million to a ho-hum $315 million...
...Kalb County, Ga., however, voters last month overwhelmingly rejected a 1% hike in the local sales tax, even though it was intended to offset part of the property tax. De Kalb's chief executive officer, Manuel Maloof, bemoans the deterioration of the federal highways and Washington's unwillingness to provide adequate funds for the national highway system and toxic-waste removal. But Maloof, a Democrat, is even more upset at his own inability to repair his county's sewers and pipelines. "It's all a residue of Ronald Reagan," Maloof says."He did more than most by telling...