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...members and to executives at the major record companies soliciting nominations for recordings released during the 12 | months ending last Sept. 30. Each member -- including singers, songwriters, album-cover designers, engineers and producers -- is allowed to recommend up to five candidates in each award category. That list becomes the ballot that is mailed out to the 6,000 members eligible to vote...
Academic All-America: Tyler Rullman was named to the GTE Academic All-America University Division District I Men's Basketball Team yesterday. Players who make the team regionally qualify for the national ballot. Fellow Ivy-Leaguer, Brown guard Rick Lloyd was also honored, along with Siena guard Bruce Schroeder, Holy Cross forward Jim Nairus and Manhattan center David Althaver...
California's voters set the cuts in motion last November by narrowly passing Proposition 140, a ballot initiative that hit legislators with a double whammy: it not only decreed maximum terms of six years for assemblymen and eight for senators, but more immediately ordered a cut of nearly 40% in the $190 million legislative operating budget. Last week, as a wave of mass layoffs was announced, the senate shed 200 of its nearly 1,000 employees, and the assembly dropped 440 of its staff of 1,500. Gone, along with clerks and secretaries, were some 300 policy experts; 15 subcommittees...
Speaker Brown, who had led a $5 million campaign against the ballot initiative, was forced to apply the lion's share of the cutbacks. "It's a crippling blow," moaned Brown. Without the experts, for example, legislators were not responding promptly to the budget recently proposed by the new Governor, Republican Pete Wilson. "We don't have the analytical ability," said Brown. "We don't have the talent back there able...
...Thee to a Ballot...