Word: gov
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Town administrators wanted to fund a new solid waste program and a health maintenance organization, but they lacked the $700,000 that the projects were expected to cost. They also had to make up for substantial cuts in state funds that Gov. Michael S. Dukakis ordered last year to help close the state's budget deficit...
With the state fiscal crisis prompting Massachusetts officials to cut ever-farther back on local aid, the lack of tax revenue from University land is a particularly sore point for many city officials. The budget submitted by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis last month proposes a reduction of $86 million in local aid statewide...
...while statewide results of the 578 caucuses have yet to be tabulated, Lt. Gov. Eveyln F. Murphy's camp swept the caucus in ultraliberal Ward Eight, winning six of the seven delegate spots...
Councillors said they were concerned that the state's budget crisis will cause a sharp reduction in aid to local governments this year, forcing cuts in many city services. Gov. Michael S. Dukakis slashed more than $3 million in aid to Cambridge this summer, and state officials have predicted that further cuts may be forthcoming...
...word one could find to describe a Democratic Party electoral strategy in which Jackson and his program figured prominently would be: suicidal. Erroneously, Kayyem remarks that the Democrats lost the 1988 election because they failed to differentiate themselves from the Republican Party by endorsing Jackson's agenda. In truth, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis was routed at the polls despite the daring of his "I am a liberal" acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. Dukakis certainly tried to differentiate his party from the Republicans, but to much of the electorate the difference appeared to consist of the harmful permissiveness...