Word: golds
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...form of block grants of $5,000 per student. In a state where local control is taken for granted, such a change would be galling enough. But the law has made it nearly impossible for well-off towns to maintain their school quality by raising money locally. The 41 "gold" towns have been told they must share all the property-tax revenue they raise (no matter how much) with 211 "receiver" towns--giving away in many places as much as 60[cents]to 70[cents] of every dollar...
...raise taxes while cutting school budgets, eliminating programs and laying off teachers, three of them--Dover, Plymouth and Searsburg--are refusing to send their taxes to Montpelier. At least three other towns are talking about joining the rebellion. In Manchester, volunteer firefighters are trying to persuade locals and other gold towns to join the revolt. And on both sides of the battle, people are worried that the fabric of Vermont is fraying for good. Says anti-Act 60 lobbyist Bob Stannard: "This is civil...
...spending his retirement in the picturesque hills of Corralitos, Calif. But he's not there simply for the view. May believes his spot in this rich agricultural and fishing area might spare him the hardships of a famine ushered in with the new millennium, and he's ordering gold coins and laying in food in bulk just to be sure. He's also buying weapons, adding regularly to his growing gun collection. In the coming months, says May, more and more Americans are going to realize that "we aren't going to make the deadline...
...Dedee is the movie's narrator: a man eater who in other films would be gazed at and gossiped about, but here gets to tell us what we need to know. At least she's honest about herself. "I don't have a heart of gold," she says at the start. "And I don't grow one later, O.K.?" More than O.K., because Ricci embodies her with a brazenly unsentimental sass...
...must know that. Know the fact, or the music, or the truth inside the mythology, spun from roots by his rough magic into cloth of gold, into songs that are the shifting, stormy center of American popular music in the second part of the very century when the music was invented...