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Other parts of the city budget may suffer less. In an effort to stay within Gov. Edward J. King's 4 per cent limit on tax increases, City Manager James L. Sullivan ordered every department head to request no more than 2 per cent over last year's budget. "No budget request came in much above that, and some came in a little below," Sullivan said. But figure out the math. If inflation stays above 15 per cent, and budgets only increase 2 per cent, then total spending in real dollars will decrease dramatically. For a year, maybe two, inflation...
...prisoner of death row at the Arizona State Prison and currently have an execution date for May 16th, 1980 and I have a rather unusual request to make of you. I don't have any family as I was raised in an orphanage nor do I have any money to fight my case with or try to get a stay of execution. The request that I have is that you run this letter in your campus newspaper for law students or students of criminology to read or just maybe anyone that might be interested. I need funds to fight...
...workers will also request safety soles instead of toes on protective footwear and an increase in safety shoe allowance...
Robin Schmidt, University vice-president for government and community affairs, said he instructed University attorneys Friday to investigate the request. "If there is a chance a settlement will be made, we will certainly get together with the city and talk," Schmidt said...
John Calvin died at 54, after a long and tormenting illness. The man who had sought to impose his will on the world had a peculiar last request: he wanted to be buried in an unmarked grave. The wish was respected. Today no one knows the great reformer's final resting place. But the book offers an epitaph: "He meant what he said." The reverse is true for this imaginative biography: Norton-Taylor performs the considerable task of saying what Calvin meant...