Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other states should have the Kansas problem: What to do with so much money? Even as New York's Governor Hugh Carey was trying to wring $1 billion in revenue measures out of his legislature to help wipe out a huge deficit, frugal Kansas was sitting on a budget surplus of $179 million. Now the state government is being badgered by all sorts of groups that want cuts from the pie. City governments are clamoring for some form of revenue sharing. Educators want more for schools. There are pleas that state taxes be lowered, even though they have...
...possibilities of the future." Her nephew Stephen, confronted by the same problem, can't see his way to such a justification and denies the possibility of the future by killing himself. The other characters in the book--two cousins Frances meets in the course of the novel, her brother Hugh, her father--seek their solutions in forms of solitude, even after the death from starvation of a neglected great-aunt reveals the hazards of such a course...
...smiling lady is British Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher, who had come to London's Royal Smithfield Show to cultivate the farm vote. The wary-eyed animal at her side is Kojak, a Charolais and Aberdeen Angus steer entered in the annual livestock fair. Kojak, the property of Sir Hugh Froser (who is chairman of Harrods department store), had good reason for uneasiness. Despite his new political connection, he was put on the auction block and bought by butchers to be converted into Christmas roast beef...
...prompting of the Cleveland Museum (where the show goes in 1976, before opening in Paris next fall), the English art historian Hugh Honour has assembled some 340 works of art related to America, chiefly from European collections, in every medium from printer's ink to porcelain. Honour has also written the catalogue and a much longer study, The New Golden Land. In depth and details, with an unfailing subtlety and tartness of argument, his exhibition sets out to illuminate one of the most intriguing subjects in the history of art: how European artists responded to the bewildering and distant...
...Digest. The two publications together accounted for one-quarter of the estimated $75 million in ad revenues placed in Canada's 21 leading magazines last year. Obviously, supporters of the bill hope that it will divert these advertising dollars into Canadian-owned publications. Said Secretary of State J. Hugh Faulkner, the minister in charge of cultural affairs, when he announced the bill: "It is my hope and expectation that the decision of the government will result in the creation of a Canadian newsmagazine...