Word: local
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis said the uncertainty about state finances may also delay the recent tradition of having the Legislature vote on a local aid resolution in late February to let cities and towns know how much aid they can count on before the municipal budgeting season begins...
House Ways and Means Chair Richard A. Voke (D-Chelsea), who will play a key role in the debate over local aid, taxes and the new budget, immediately put Dukakis on notice that he considered the local aid proposal overly generous in light of available revenues...
Voke also faulted local officials for being willing to accept the local aid increase while they are unwilling to fully endorse the governor's tax package--which calls for raising $131 million the rest of this fiscal year and $604 million annually after that...
Trotman's athletic finesse, perhaps an innate quality, began to surface at the age of 10 when she was one of only two girls to join her hometown junior ice hockey league. At the same time, she began racing in single-handed boats at her local yacht club in Cold Spring Harbor in Syosset, N.Y., where her mother had won the Junior Championships...
...qualities can be found in the character of Julian Ramsay, narrator and groping intelligence of Incline Our Hearts. Born in London with the coming of World War II, he is orphaned by German bombs and sent to Norfolk to be raised by his Aunt Deirdre and Uncle Roy, a local vicar. Rounding out the rectory household is Felicity, a laconic and inaptly named teenage cousin, who leaves her room long enough to be impregnated and abandoned by Raphael Hunter, scholar-scoundrel and the novel's sinister presence...