Word: antibudget
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...into significant groups of protesters on the road. Shivering in the 10° cold, some 2,000 demonstrators, including students, auto workers, Indians and blacks, waved placards outside of Reagan's Bloomington, Minn., rally. Some signs tagged him as PRESIDENT HOOVER. In Iowa, Reagan critics held up antibudget slogans Like NANCY GETS RED DRESSES, WE GET PINK SLIPS. In Indiana, Democratic legislators wore buttons reading "12.4%"-the state's unadjusted December unemployment rate...
...resubmitting the budget last month, the school board calmly added $80,000 in increased unemployment benefits for the schools' staff. That prompted more votes than the presidential election, and the antibudget forces won again, 2,492 to 2,246. In addition, the voters turned out Physician William Davis as school board chairman. Superintendent Robert Work finally came up with a surprise: he mysteriously discovered that a $200,000 bill due the state for unemployment insurance did not have to be paid until next Aug. 31, thus providing enough ready cash to reopen the schools until yet another budget vote...
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