Word: fob
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Parts of the South are in similar straits. In Alabama, a 15% reduction in the general fund was ordered in September, just four months after the fiscal 1983 budget of $496 million was adopted, when Governor Fob James realized that the declining state economy and a 14% unemployment rate had opened a $50 million hole in the budget. Even Louisiana, long buoyed by oil and gas taxes, has that sinking feeling. Reason: the oil glut has depressed prices, and thus tax revenues. Fearing that its $6.3 billion budget could be $100 million out of balance...
...years, state and local lawmakers have tried to skirt U.S. Supreme Court decisions barring prayer in public schools. One of the most direct challenges to the court came last week in Alabama, where Governor Fob James Jr. signed a bill allowing teachers to lead "willing" students in prayer. The bill recommended a prayer written by the Governor's son, Fob James III, 25, a Mobile attorney, in a spirit of patriotic ecumenism. It reads: "We acknowledge you as the Creator and Supreme Judge of the world. May your justice, your truth and your peace abound this...
Lobbying for the bill were the Moral Majority; Eagle Forum (Phyllis Schlafly's conservative political-action group); Concerned Christians for Good Government; and, most prominently, Alabama's first family, led by First Lady Bobbie James. Some Alabamians irreverently describe the fervently religious Jameses as the "new trinity": "Fob the father, Fob the son and the holy host...
...blackout, and Guardsmen carted generators to remote towns. Birmingham residents were shocked enough by the -2° cold, but then the weather became positively weird: multicolored lightning flashed in the night sky. Weathermen speculated that the colors resulted from light-refracting ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere. Alabama Governor Fob James proclaimed a state of emergency and, in a televised address, chastened his constituents: "Don't get out unless you absolutely have to." Two young couples in the Birmingham suburbs were heedless...
...very same reason, state officials are enthusiastic about no-strings money. Says Georgia Governor George Busbee: "The categorical grant system wastes too much money on unproductive bureaucrats." He calculates that localities now employ more than 900 lobbyists to fight in Washington for education funds alone. Says Alabama Governor Fob James: "If the President gives us the opportunity, we can show that we can run our own affairs...