Word: deficit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year, the Quakers dominated Harvard in a 52-13 decision, narrowing their deficit in the overall series to 37-20-2. This year, Harvard (3-5 overall, 3-2 Ivy) looks to answer the call, coming off a 27-14 win over Brown last week...
...most obvious of these is the $500 million deficit in the state budget, which many have blamed on the Democratic leadership, led by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and House Speaker George Keverian '53 (D-Everett...
Many voters in Massachusetts--now paying the first installments of an emergency increase in the state income tax of three-quarters of 1 percent--may not approve of a $855 million tax package to cover the deficit, under consideration in the Democrat controlled House of Representatives...
...they had heeded some of the things I had said, they could have avoided this situation," says Pierce, who advocates cutting "unnecessary" spending to curb the deficit instead of new taxes...
...available to disaster victims, mostly in California; $2.85 billion of that will be new money. Legislators pointedly exempted the relief funds from the spending cuts mandated by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings law, but, in a somewhat surprising burst of honesty, agreed to count them as part of the budget deficit. Though New York Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan asserted that the relief money will have to be made up by cuts in other programs, that is most unlikely, and no one in Washington will even whisper the T word. Most likely, the $3 billion, and more that California lawmakers warned...