Word: budgeted
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When no Hollywood studio came through, Feldman and Meeker got backing from a New Zealand company, Lion Screen Entertainment Ltd. The producers put up $1 million of the film's $13 million budget themselves. They hired Larry Peerce (Goodbye Columbus) to direct and chose Chiklis, a little-known New York actor, for the lead role after auditioning more than 200 aspirants. Following several delays, shooting began last...
...referendum would earmark seven percent of the annual state budget for primary, secondary, and higher education. One of Tsongas' goals is to win back for public primary and secondary education some of the funds eliminated by another populist revenue control referendum, Proposition 2 1/2, which limited taxes on local property taxes...
TSONGAS sees two reasons why the state's voters will rally around a budget entitlement for public education. Some will respond from a commitment to social justice, equal opportunity, and the need for a enlightened society. Tsongas says that while he supports this perspective, "it only reaches 50 percent of the voters...
Another objection to setting aside a specific portion of the state budget for education is that such a step might set off a general melee among government social programs to stake out their own funding claims...
ALTHOUGH the proposed referendum, like all such measures, would be rigid and inflexible, it would not introduce any pernicious new element into the state budget process. The money that would be gained back for education was initially lost though Proposition 2 1/2, an equally, if not more, inflexible measure that capped local property taxes and severely limited towns' revenue options. Tsongas' referendum would merely fight fire with fire...