Word: inherited
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Unless something is done, the state will have a deficit of $168 million by next July i. It is not entirely Kerners fault. He was the first Illinois Governor to inherit a budget deficit from his predecessor: some $13 million from Republican Governor William Stratton. The state legislature last year voted to spend $76 million more than Kerner asked for in his $3.1 billion budget, and the Republican-controlled senate rejected his plans to raise an extra $75 million, mainly through an increase in the corporation...
...chilly evening last week, while visitors in evening dress strolled the lawns of his 135-acre estate, an old gentleman in tennis shoes sat in his 700-year-old manor house and reminisced. "Once I began to inherit family properties," he said, "it was really my job to build a better world. And besides, I always had so much sympathy for poor little Mozart...
Perhaps they are not yet prepared to inherit the mess. But another realignment of leadership seems inevitable, and much of the betting favors increased power for Bias Roca, Rodriguez & Co. For Cuba, the melancholy prospect is of continued hardship and little hope of freedom or improvement. In which case, men of cunning and mettle have the best chance of survival. Bias Roca, the Rock, figures on being firmly in place...
...since childhood. He calls it The Law of Big Numbers, a ten-year project that will "attempt to apply mathematical equations to the new generation of Russian intellectuals." Strange Days. No simple equation can tell how Russia's youth will mature, or what kind of society it will inherit...
Knight's withdrawal left Nixon with two rivals for the chance to oppose Democratic Incumbent Edmund ("Pat") Brown in November. One is Harold J. ("Butch") Powers, 61, lieutenant governor under Knight, who has done no campaigning to date, hopes to inherit Knight's following ("He and I always saw eye to eye," says Powers). The other, more serious challenger to Nixon is Assemblyman Joseph C. Shell, 43. Shell has been buzzing busily around the state, piloting his own Beechcraft Bonanza from one campaign appearance to the next. A onetime University of Southern California halfback, husky...