Word: line
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Long Island, politics is run by a monolithic political entity that more resembles the Kremlin than Cambridge City Hall. There is one party line, one party candidate and little room for dissent within that party. The county's party boss is also presiding supervisor of the county's largest town...
...office that has broken the law, as far as I can tell," he says. "But wherever the law hasn't been exactly clear about what has to be done, people have walked very close to the line of illegality and done things that are very wasteful of the state's [funds...
...have to bring Massachusetts state spending in line with our existing resources," Pierce says. "Massachusetts taxpayers cannot be responsible for flitting the bill for mismanagement...
Flight through Czechoslovakia continued and people who stayed behind said they were unimpressed by reforms introduced by Egon Krenz, the president and Communist Party chief who last month replaced his hard-line mentor, Erich Honecker...
ARABS comprise 18 percent of the population of Israel proper. Israeli budget allocations, however, have never fully acknowledged their existence. As the Jerusalem Post reports, more than half of Arab families in Israel live below the poverty line. Even so, the Israeli government regularly provides Arab towns and villages with as little as one-third of the regular budget allocations and one-tenth of the development funding provided for equivalent Jewish municipalities...