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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lannon said he would ask the city council to override the cap, but added that even with a 13 per cent increase in funding, which Lannon called the lowest educationally sound level, the school system would have to lay off nearly 80 teachers...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: City May Have to Slash School Budget | 4/2/1980 | See Source »

Faced with a possible temporary lay-off of 426 employees, the Cambridge City Council took one step toward approving a supplemental budget request from the Cambridge School Committee last night...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Council Moves to Approve Additional School Funds | 4/1/1980 | See Source »

School Superintendent William Lannon told the council last night that if the funds are not approved, the school department will be forced either to cancel the last nine days of classes or lay off 382 regular and 46 substitute employees...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Council Moves to Approve Additional School Funds | 4/1/1980 | See Source »

...Harris then directed the officers to the gun, which lay on the front seat of her car. At week's end a judge ordered that Harris, free on $40,000 bail, be bound over to a grand jury, which will determine what charges, if any, should be filed against the headmistress of the Madeira School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Death of the Diet Doctor | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...maybe he'd always been in pieces; maybe he'd arrived unassembled. Various parts of him seemed poorly joined together. His lean, hairy limbs were connected by exaggerated knobs of bone; his black-bearded jaw was as clumsily hinged as a nutcracker. Parts of his life, too, lay separate from other parts. His wife knew almost none of his friends. His children had never seen where he worked; it wasn't in a safe part of town, their mother said. Last month's hobby-the restringing of a damaged pawnshop banjo, with an eye to becoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Rich Are Different | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

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