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...million surplus by the end of fiscal 1985 and an early repeal of the surcharge. In Indiana, Republican Governor Robert Orr called the state legislature into special session last December to avert an estimated 1983 shortfall of $452 million. The result: a $1.8 billion tax hike, the largest in Indiana history, and painful delays in state payments for schools, universities and local subsidies. The state finished the fiscal year $60.4 million in the black, with forecast surpluses of $96.1 million in 1984 and $126.9 million...
...HARD not to agree that Nestle has been and still is responsible for infant deaths. It is the largest infant formula company in the world, with a large and often dominant share in many Third World countries. Furthermore, the Commission itself has found that Nestle does not always follow the WHO codes, though spokesperson Jack Greenwald feels that the company now generally complies with the codes except in a few areas...
...largest is a $1.6 million salary adjustment for the school department. When the council passed the fiscal 1984 budget last spring, the Cambridge School Committee had not settled a contract dispute with the Cambridge Teachers' Association, and Healy had agreed to give the Committee a greater percentage of the state funds...
...careers in public service," Bok wrote. He boldly declared that the University would try to do for public service what it had done for private enterprise through the Business School earlier in the century, and for medicine two centuries ago. Today the Kennedy School is one of the largest public policy centers in the country, with a faculty of 105, a student body of 623, and six research centers...
With 30,000 residents voting, "It was the largest turnout ever--a 16 percent increase over the last election," said city cable coalition spokesman Stuart N. Brotman, adding. "But if only one additional vote in each of the precincts were recounted in our favor, the referendum would have been defeated...