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Whatever the initial impetus, Mayher said, the players are "really enthusiastic about...
...There is no provision for domestic partners," says Bruce. "There is a healthcare advisory committee, and one of its agenda items is to look at the issue. The Union really had been the impetus, but there have been other individuals...
...service stations sell CNG (110,000 sell gasoline), but that could change, believes John Watson of Mitchell Energy in Houston. Says he: "The potential is great, but the people who will invest to build the infrastructure have to be convinced it's a winner. GM will be an impetus...
...impetus for all this is that the nation's freshman Governors, like many of those returning to office after last fall's elections, are confronted with three problems all at once. The recession has cut deeply into revenues from state corporate and income taxes, while also leading to more cautious consumer spending that reduces the take from sales taxes. At the same time, the states are shouldering more of the burden of federal programs and facing stiff increases in the costs of Medicaid (18.4% in fiscal 1990 alone), bridge and highway maintenance, prison construction and new schoolrooms...
Just as ERA was the galvanizing force in 1972, a major impetus for women this year was the Supreme Court's Webster decision in July 1989, which opened the way for states to pass laws restricting abortion. Of the 76 women still in congressional and statewide campaigns after the primaries, only three -- Governor Kay Orr of Nebraska, who was seeking re-election; Joan Finney, running for Governor of Kansas; and Senate candidate M. Jane Brady in Delaware -- did not offer themselves as pro-choice candidates...