Word: extended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plan, Roemer last week proposed laying off thousands of state employees and closing vocational schools and hospitals. That would shrink up to $720 million from a budget already shriveled by a decline in tax revenues from oil companies. It would still leave the legislature with an unhappy choice: extend the 3% sales tax that Roemer's new measures would have replaced or accept severe cutbacks in vital government services...
...state of Oregon and California's Alameda County, which includes Oakland, are on the verge of taking that seemingly drastic step. In April, the Oregon senate passed a bill that would extend Medicaid coverage to 86,000 low-income people previously not covered. There would, however, be limits to the care they could expect. The measure, now before the lower house, would also establish a commission of experts and consumers to rank health services in order of importance; the legislature would then decide which to finance. Oregon has already set up committees of doctors, nurses and social workers to & establish...
...April 10 meeting, the council voted to extend an invitation to Gov. Michael S. Dukakis to discuss the current deficit, which includes unreimbursed Medicaid and health care pool payments from the state...
Brown attacker Neil Munro scooped up the ensuing face-off, raced downfield and found his linemate Mike Marinelli wide open in the slot to extend the margin...
...politics of 1969 were ripe with promise. The promise that a freer, more equal society was about to be born. The efforts to make America extend its promises of liberty and justice to women, minorities and the poor. The promise that a younger generation could rise up and present an alternative direction for the nation...