Word: caps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year, maybe two, inflation can be absorbed without paring services to the bone. "Everyone knows there is some fat in government," Sullivan says, but then he quotes State Sen. Barney Frank--"The problem is the fat is marbleized." But too many years of inflation and a continuing tax cap only spell disaster...
...Harvard Coop ought to have chosen to boycott Cotrell and Leonard entirely. Since it has decided instead to offer an alternate cap-and-gown outfit, seniors should order the alternate. They must let the Coop know of their choice by April 26. Harvard is one of Cotrell and Leonard's larger and most prestigious customers, and a message from Cambridge might influence its management...
...school system, largest single item in the city budget, provides a good example. To meet King's tax cap would entail the virtual destruction of the city's schools. Even with a 13 per cent spending increase, many supports will be removed from an already shaky system. But, as school superintendent William Lannon and Cambridge mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 have pointed out, the city is caught in a double bind. If taxes are raised too much, it may add further fuel to the tax-cutting fires and impair the city's ability to meet its citizens' needs even further...
...urge the City Council to override King's cap, as it now appears likely to do. City employees need more than a 4 per cent pay increase when inflation is nearly five times that figure. And city services are not so bountiful that cutbacks are possible without touching basic necessities. The school committee should even consider increases in Lannon's bare-bones "educationally sound" budget. In a year when the system faces desegregation and is still recovering from a year marred by trouble, cuts in the level of services may turn out to be pound-foolish...
...wide of solemnity. Specials and Madness members even dress in good-humored approximation of the Kingston "rude boys" of the '60s, from the careless cuffs of their pegged pants up to the porkpie hats that sit on their heads like a street hustler's version of cap and bells. In performance, both bands leap about in transports of benign dementia. The highlight of a Madness show is a ska version of Swan Lake that features a couple of roadies conking their noggins together like a couple of billy goats in a brawl...