Word: 49th
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...scarcely four months into the current budget, the deficit had already soared to $730 million, far more than anyone imagined possible. As revenues sagged with no matching reductions in the state's ambitious outlays, deficits rose and credit , ratings withered. The financial ranking of once proud Massachusetts dropped to 49th among the states, ahead only of economically crippled Louisiana...
Sting may be a dedicated environmentalist, but has he ever toured Alaska? Oliver and Waldeck have. Last year they, along with fellow performer-activists Dana Lyons and Mavis Muller, traveled through the 49th state in a Volkswagen van on their Keep It Wild Tour, giving concerts from Anchorage and Fairbanks to such wilderness outposts as Talkeetna and Girdwood. Preaching preservation in a state where many settlers came only to plunder the resources, they found themselves singing about the evils of mining and trapping to audiences that included miners and trappers. That made for some uncomfortable moments. One night...
...everyone is happy with Caperton's reforms, which tend to centralize authority in the state capital. Taxes on gas and food are also considered unfairly regressive in a rural state where cars are considered vital to survival and per capita income is only $11,658, 49th in the nation. The Governor knows his support is fragile. He regularly tours local communities, listening to teachers and parents in an attempt to counter public apathy. Says Harold Carl, superintendent of Pleasants County schools: "We are on the right track. Now the big chore is to take the reform, master it and make...
Three Harvard students also placed in the top five individually as part of the 49th annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, a standardized six-hour, six-question exam...
Five hundred of the best swimmers on the East Coast will descend on Cambridge today through Saturday, as Blodgett Pool plays host to the 49th annual Eastern Seaboard Swimming and Diving Championships...