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...economy that kept tax revenues pouring in just fast enough. In a pinch, states could unveil a new lottery, nudge up the sales tax or practice the kind of creative accounting that shifts one year's outlays into the next. But with the economy slumping and voters raising a fuss at the very whisper of new taxes, the assumptions of the '80s are not working anymore. Now 29 states are facing budget deficits. That may be business as usual in Washington, but most states are obliged by their laws to maintain a balanced budget...
...fuss over the normally-much-maligned Harvard Dining Services...
...porcupine waddles along the wooded trail ahead, perhaps wondering why humans make such a delighted fuss when he encounters them. The mood has changed since that wet first night; 501 has come together. Eric Johannesen, 14, once desperately homesick and moody, has been asked to lead, and he sets a rugged pace: "This feels like a family relationship now. I'll get home eventually." Estelle Light, 42, a troop leader who happens to be a nurse, has tended sore feet and wounded egos all week. Assistant scoutmaster Don Browning, 51, hobbled by a sprained knee, finds that the scouts around...
Some business strategists were puzzled by the fuss. Overseas investors, after all, already own more than $400 billion worth of U.S. businesses and real estate. And Matsushita doesn't make a very convincing villain. The world's largest consumer electronics firm (fiscal 1990 revenues: $38 billion), it manufactures some of America's favorite brands of video and audio gear: Panasonic, Quasar and Technics...
...make a fuss when politicians fail to make good on their pledges? Most of the time at least some small part of what the campaigner says will find its way into policy decisions...