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While homeowners celebrated, city, county and school district officials sat in stunned disbelief. There were predictions of drastic cuts to education and social services. But the ax did not fall as Sacramento, flush with a multibillion-dollar surplus, bailed out local governments and the schools. But the state rescue was accompanied by a loss of local control. As a result of Proposition 13, school districts, county governments and cities were forced to compete with state priorities for a slice of the state budget...
...negotiations stagnated, prompting students to take more drastic actions to support the workers and Union. Groups such as the Student Labor Action Movement and the Stand for Security Coalition organized extensive protests and even a nine-day hunger strike, which resulted in the hospitalization of two undergraduates, to encourage the University to intervene in the contract negotiations. The activism prompted University human resource officials to seek an expedited audit of AlliedBarton to ensure that the subcontractor met the University's hiring and wage parity requirements for in-house and outsourced workers...
...Harvard Kennedy School has laid off 18 employees to help it close a $2 million budget gap that persisted after less drastic spending cuts, Dean David T. Ellwood '75 announced in a letter to the School's faculty and staff last Tuesday...
...pictures of drastic celebrity weight changes at LIFE.com...
...shown in approaching budget cuts.“I think the fact that they’re being cautious and not doing anything out of the ordinary—I think there’s a lot of wisdom in that,” Hissey says. More drastic measures would have suggested less consideration for the “human impact” of inevitable changes at the University, Cogan says, adding that “there’s a high level of respect and confidence in what she’s doing...