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...Cambridge Licensing Commission denied Ruggles' license application amidst neighborhood lobbying to curb the flow of alcohol in the Square. The State Alcoholic Beverages Commission subsequently rejected an appeal on the local decision...
...seriously harm the partnership that has developed between the state and students on drunk driving. Thus far, both parties have worked together in alerting the public to the dangers and penalties involved. The relationship has been mutually beneficial: the state has had an easier time in its efforts to curb drunk driving and students have an opportunity to have a role in shaping positive policies which to a large extent affect them...
...criminal record who was returning from a nightly visit to his mother's apartment. The cops said they thought Bowden was driving a car reported earlier that day in connection with an armed holdup in Cambridge (they were wrong). The officers blocked Bowden from pulling away from the curb near his mother's housing project, approached the car and put three bullets in his head...
...outstripped new sources of supply in recent years, an energy crisis crept up on the world with fateful inevitability. Yet, despite spreading signs of scarcity, most government leaders in the U.S., Europe and Japan paid little heed to calls from oilmen for urgent measures to expand energy resources and curb waste. Instead, they chose to believe that there was time to formulate some painless strategy to avert a genuine global emergency...
...final forecast showed the budget gap hitting a record $207 billion this year and then falling gradually to about $145 billion in 1986. Penner's predictions may turn out to be gloomier. Before being named to the CBO post, he warned that if Congress takes no action to curb the deficit and another deep recession hits, the shortfall could reach $300 billion by the late 1980s. While Penner favors cuts in federal spending to help close the budget gap, he also argues that tax hikes are unavoidable. Says he: "The only real questions are how much taxes will...