Word: bit
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...state budget reflected a 4% increase, the new Governor imposed a spending ceiling on every municipality in the state as a step toward meeting his campaign promise of a $500 million reduction in property taxes. Mayors and other local officials protested so loudly that King retreated a bit, agreeing that if two-thirds of a community's voters approved higher spending, its cap would be lifted. Still, most Massachusetts politicians regard the effort as hamhanded, taking no account of growth or inflation. Says a state senator: "Things are more professional on the Quincy city council...
...That bit of gallows humor was part of Bonn's reaction to the Federal Republic's latest espionage scandal. In the past two weeks, six West German secretaries of high-ranking officials have been accused of spying for East Germany. The most recent suspect is Helga Rödiger, 44, who worked for Manfred Lahnstein, state secretary in the Finance Ministry and Bonn's top expert on monetary affairs. Last week, after she failed to show up for work, agents of the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, West Germany's equivalent of the FBI, discovered that...
Where little is at stake but pride, it is much more sensible for the richest and most powerful nation in the world to concede a bit to those nations that wish to gain face at our expense, e.g. Mexico...
Still, New Hampshire voters take wry satisfaction in the fact that the politicians cannot ignore them. Whenever a state threatens to move its primary ahead of them, the obstinate New Hampshiremen just push their own forward a bit. There is in fact a law in the Granite State requiring that its primary be moved at least one week ahead of any other state's. That should take care of Maine's threats to schedule a primary on Feb. 24, 1980, the same day as New Hampshire's. "We aren't first in anything else," says...
...China Syndrome is not the least bit fair-minded about nuclear power...