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...Ways and Means Committee will open public hearings on the "no new taxes" House budget this morning. Although the spending plan has come under fire from human service advocates and municipal leaders for underfunding programs, Senate Ways and Means Chair Patricia McGovern (D-Lawrence) has said that the upper chamber is constitutionally unable to raise taxes...
...choral pieces, each of which will be performed by a different choral group. The pieces were chosen to reflect a diversity of choral styles and will include "Rennaisance, Romantic period, 20th century and light choral works," Taylor said. The Worcester Polytechnical Institute Women's Chorale, the Mt. Holyoke College Chamber Singers and the Winsor School Small Chorus will sing with RCS for the Friday performance...
Unseasonably warm weather in Warsaw, 340 miles to the north, brought more political change into bloom. Two weeks ago, the Jaruzelski government and the Solidarity-led opposition agreed to hold elections for a second chamber of parliament, a revived senate that would include non-Communist candidates. Party leader Wojciech Jaruzelski, who presided over the crackdown outlawing Solidarity in 1981, was uncharacteristically exuberant: "Significant progress is being made to construct parliamentary democracy in Poland." In a church basement across the city, Solidarity leader Lech Walesa told his supporters that Poland was entering a decisive stage "we hope will lead to democracy...
Testament to this evasive style in both diet as well as exercise is the newly developed and increasingly popular Electrical Muscular Stimulation devices. You go into some high tech chamber of fitness, lie down on a table and let some person in a white oufit slap rubber pads on vital muscular areas. Your muscles are then contracted by force of electrical impulses--no work, no sweat, only modern technology...
...normally raucous House chamber fellsilent, Flaherty told fellow lawmakers that thestate must now pick up the slack for a negligentfederal government and local communitiesconstrained by Proposition 2 1/2, the 1980property tax cap referendum...