Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The House budget was crafted in reaction to the $12.9 million spending package submitted in January by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis. The governor's plan is linked to a controversial $604 million tax hike on capital gains, alcohol, cigarettes and gasoline.
* The elimination of funding for the purchase of library materials and laboratory supplies. The Dukakis administration had requested $400,000, a $350,000 decrease from last year's budget.
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.
"Fifty to one, it's a bunch of crap," said former Dukakis Chief of Staff Hale Champion, who is now a lecturer at the Kennedy School. Dukakis' spokesperson flatly denied the rumor, as did the Kennedy School's public relations officer.
But while Kennedy School officials may dismiss the Dukakis rumor, no one but President Bok really seems to know much about the search to replace Dean Graham T. Allison '62.