Word: limits
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...this state, but the economic issues are as heavy as elsewhere. The question is which gubernatorial candidate can move further to the right. Millionaire Drugstore Owner Jack Eckerd promises to put as much money into the race as "it takes to win." He is urging a state constitutional limit on taxes and spending. "The state government is the biggest business in Florida," he tells crowds. "And that's where my record has been. I'm going to use a lot of businesspeople to help solve some of our problems." His Democratic opponent, State Senator Robert Graham, wants...
...Sarasin, faults her for substantially increasing the state budget. But Grasso has produced a surplus for three successive years, and she has proposed sales and business tax cuts for the 1979 budget. Sarasin is leading a petition drive for a state-constitution ban on an income tax and a limit on spending. He says of the 50,000 people who have signed to date: "I see them as supporting the concept. I hope they support...
...mayor of Pittsburgh, he trimmed the city payroll by about 25% and reduced real estate taxes. Even so, neither Flaherty nor his G.O.P. opponent, Richard Thornburgh, is calling for a state tax cut, since Pennsylvania is running a small deficit. Instead, both are proposing constitutional amendments to limit state spending. As U.S. Attorney for Western Pennsylvania, Thornburgh sent some 200 gangsters and corrupt public officials to prison. But one of these, Numbers Racketeer Anthony Grosso, is getting revenge. He is ostentatiously supporting Thornburgh and distributing literature calling Flaherty a "nitwit." Complains Thornburgh: "Sabotage...
...factions are not pushed around by any overbearing majority. Today, such is the fragmented atmosphere of public discourse, that it is sometimes hard to remember that majority will or consensus exists, and, indeed, these seem to crystallize less and less often nowadays. When truckers dislike a nationally mandated speed limit, they turn into an instant faction and willfully protest the law with massive slowdowns. Los Angeles motorists, irritated by an experimental expressway lane for car poolers, defeat it not with persuasion and argument but by circumventions and defiant traffic blockages. It has become commonplace to see popular sentiment disdained, frustrated...
This year's program of 18 events includes two new races, a mixed eight (four men, four women and cox), and the men's midweight single for scullers up to 170 lbs. Entries in most events have reached the limit...