Word: governors
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Polls show the outcome uncertain, with nearly half the electorate still undecided. In a desperate effort to defeat Jarvis-Gann and appease homeowners, Governor Jerry Brown is backing a more modest Behr amendment. It uses a complex valuation formula to prevent local governments from increasing property taxes for homeowners by much more than the inflation rate. That is part way to a good idea. The solution is not holding down any one tax, but holding them all down, and the best way to achieve that is to curb spending by government itself...
...Diego Federal Savings and Loan Association offers low down-payment mortgages for new houses that use some form of solar power. The Bank of America has made about 2,000 loans, totaling more than $3 million, on its solar financing program, almost all of them in California, where Governor Jerry Brown's ambitious program of state income tax credits and other incentives has kept demand among the highest in the nation...
...Germany after World War II and masterminded the Berlin airlift; in Chatham, Mass. A West Point graduate with a flair for administration, Clay held a number of military engineering posts before spearheading the U.S.'s entire military supply system during World War II. In 1947 he became military governor of the U.S. zone in Germany, where he stabilized the country's economy and helped formulate a constitution guaranteeing democratic elections. Confronted by a Russian siege of Berlin in June 1948, and ordered not to use military strength, Clay coordinated a massive daily supply shuttle...
Kennedy was also annoyed with Texas Governor John Connally the night before the assassination, Jackie relates. "I remember asking [Jack] the night in Houston sort of what the trouble was ... He said that John Connally wanted to show that he was independent and could run on his own and was making friends with a lot of-I think he might have said 'Republican fat cats'-and he wanted to show that he didn't need Lyndon Johnson...
...used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate. A woman trying to ban all smoking from airlines remarked, "I don't see why the nonsmokers should have their lungs raped." Action is sometimes not far behind. At a reception in the Minnesota Governor's mansion, a smoker who was asked to put out his cigarette cheerfully agreed, then made the mistake of taking one long, last puff. An incensed woman promptly doused him with gubernatorial lemonade. One New York woman carries a pair of long scissors to shear off the tips...