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City Councilor Thomas M. Menino echoed their request, calling for the state to give cities more fiscal responsibility, in order "to benefit from economic growth and provide adequate services...
...sense here or in Nicaragua that we're coming up to a vote or a decision, that all sorts of stuff starts appearing." The vote on the $14 million will be in the form of separate House and Senate resolutions and is expected in April. If the Administration's request is defeated, the White House will start pushing its alternative funding proposals in earnest...
Meanwhile, the Pentagon plans to spend nearly as much of its 1986 S.D.I. budget request on sensors and battle-management systems ($1.6 billion) as on weapons development ($1.8 billion). Sensors are crucial to any system: they have to find the targets first and aim at them over thousands of miles of space. Keith Taggart, a researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, likens the job to shooting out a specific window in New York City's World Trade Center by firing a rifle bullet from the top of the John Hancock Building in Chicago. The sensors also would have...
...Nicholas Flatford (Jeff Rosen), a Puritan with a taste for sentiment and his own bad poetry, has just been given an ultimatum by Martha Coftin (Debra Staniunas), his something-more-than-shrewish wife: five days to clean up his act and cut out the poetry, or else. A reasonable request. "Can't you talk of something else besides the weather, vegetables, and domestic animals?" Nicholas demands, as he proceeds to undertake this task with twice as much time as Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy but with only half the wit. Luckily for him, the Devil (Bill Saunders) intervenes at just...
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