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...line he can build or plant trees, how high his fences may be, what additions he may build. A piggery war broke out in Bolton, Mass., a town that traditionally earned its living by raising swine. Newcomers to the town proposed an ordinance limiting new piggeries to a maximum of eight swine. They were angrily voted down. A man named Stephen Kenney was hauled before the village court in the Buffalo suburb of Kenmore and ordered to cut the growth in his front yard or be fined. He explained that the six-foot-high stand of weeds was in fact...
...Senate voted to raise the maximum grant a poor student can receive from $2100 to $2300 for fiscal 1987, increasing it to $3100 by fiscal 1991. By automatically excluding families with incomes exceeding $30,000, 35,000 students will be cut from the Pell Grant rolls...
...many of his initiatives. Says one Democratic official: "He never pushes the legislative leaders." The Governor, for example, has not been able to win support for a program to clean up toxic-waste sites around the state. Cuomo's detractors point out that the tax cut only lowers the maximum rate for personal income from 10% to 9%, and that New York still taxes and borrows more than any other large industrial state...
...part of the country have had to plow under tainted lettuce and cabbage crops. On Wednesday, Paris announced that five workers at a reprocessing plant at Cap de la Hague had accidentally received from .7 to 18 rems of radiation over their bodies. Five rems a year is the maximum exposure considered to be safe...
Despite facing a maximum penalty of five years in prison for each of the felony charges, Sanctuary activists seemed undaunted. Said the Rev. John M. Fife, 46, of Tucson's Southside United Presbyterian Church, a co-founder of the movement and one of the eight* convicted defendants: "I plan for as long as possible to continue to be the pastor of a congregation that has committed itself to providing...