Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House bill provides for a 7.9 percent cost-of-living hike by January. On Jan. 1, 1991, a 25 percent raise would be given--on top of whatever cost-of-living increase is given to rank-and-file civil servants at that time...
Assuming a 3 percent 1991 civil service raise, House members who now make $89,500 likely would see their pay increase to about...
...first the play, written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, seems a little fragmented, and Thoreau (Josh Frost) ditsy rather than wise. But in the course of the performance, the play takes form. Lawrence and Lee use a series of flashbacks explaining Thoreau's civil disobedience and his getting out of jail, as well as a dream sequence involving the Mexican war. Also, various characters, such as Emerson and Thoreau's mother, appear to say things from the past, as voices from Thoreau's memory...
BOSTON--Gov. Michael S. Dukakis yesterday signed into law the Gay Civil Rights Bill, extending basic civil rights to gay and lesbian citizens and bringing to an end a 17-year-old stuggle in Massachusetts state politics...
...historic day for Massachusetts," said Gov. Dukakis. "Our state is once again in the forefront of efforts to extend civil rights protection to all," he said...