Word: cut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House Majority Leader Charles Flaherty(D-Cambridge), in a moving speech which many saidsounded more like a defense of the Dukakis budgetthan the House plan, criticized Republicanattempts to cut the budget further...
...responsible for a lot, but we don't have the funds," she explains. "Because we have to have a balanced budget, we have to either set priorities and cut programs or find new revenues somehow...
Students at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst are camping out in make-shift shacks, staging rallies and mailing pennies to state representatives to protest legislators plans to cut $31 million from Gov. Michael S. Dukakis' proposed higher education budget...
...shacks are "representative of the student poverty caused by the cuts. We call them `Cut-back City," said Owen R. Broadhurst, a freshman affiliated with the group. He said these structures were different from earlier shanties erected as protests against the apartheid policies of the South African government...
...from manufacturers, the four-store Sock Express chain in Manhattan has its own factory. Company founder Barton Weiss favors socks with rhinestones, zippers and buttons, all of which would be difficult for a mass manufacturer to produce. Weiss gets around the problem by employing 28 skilled costume builders to cut fabrics and put his socks + together. "I can have an idea tonight and have it in the stores tomorrow," he boasts. Growing curbside competition is proving a spur to innovation. One of the most popular styles in California is an anklet adorned with scenes of grazing cows. Picking...