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...lawmakers blame different people for a lack of initiative on the tax package, most on Beacon Hill seem to admit that some form of tax increase will be passed before the end of the fiscal year in late June. If not to save the state from this year's mammoth deficit, they say, new taxes are necessary to prevent an even worse situation next year...

Author: By Chip Cummins, | Title: Keverian Criticized For Handling Of Tax Bills | 4/10/1990 | See Source »

University officials said yesterday they were shocked and disappointed by Spence's decision to leave, particularly as Harvard plans to embark on a mammoth multi-billion dollar fundraising drive in which the FAS dean was to play a central role...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Spence Resigns to Take Stanford Post | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

...also literally been the lifeblood of Bishop. For years, North Inyo County Hospital has relied on Greyhound to bring fresh supplies of blood from a Reno blood bank on weekends, when the medical facility is kept busy with victims of ski and traffic accidents from Mammoth Mountain, 40 miles away. Partly because of these special needs, the company had provided service to Bishop from Reno at the beginning of the strike. But that lifeline was severed last week, when Greyhound canceled the daily run for economic reasons. "If you've got 60 passengers for Sacramento and only a couple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where There's No Bus, There's No Exit | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

Many of the Government's properties are white elephants of the most unwanted breed. One such mammoth is the 24,000-acre Banning-Lewis Ranch, situated just outside vastly overbuilt Colorado Springs. A developer paid $200 million for the parcel in the mid-1980s as the future site of several planned communities, but now the land is virtually useless because the city has de-annexed it. As a result, anyone who wishes to develop the former ranch can no longer count on municipally priced water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Is a Rescue? | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

Despite the overall squad's difficulties, the men's team was not without its own individual stars this weekend in the stiff Heps competition. Junior John Brzezenski's mammoth toss of 60-ft, 1-in in the 35-Ib. weight was good enough for third place and the provisional NCAA standards...

Author: By Rik Geiersbach, | Title: W. Thinclads Grab Heps; Men Take Ninth | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

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