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...public schools. Instead, by a 69% majority, they agreed to raise the state sales tax from 4% to 6% and to increase the tax on a pack of cigarettes from 25 cents to 75 cents. At the same time, they adopted the Governor's proposal to raise the minimum amount the state's schools must spend per pupil from...
...money would be pooled in a statewide education fund which would then be divided up among the local school districts. Each district would receive a minimum of $4,200 per student and wealthier communities would be limited in what spending increases they could make...
...downfall of this experience occurred when my minimum payments increased, because my balance had increased," she said...
Michele didn't know where to turn. "I found myself engrossed in my studies and not wanting to stress over the credit cards," she told the assembled congresspeople. "I missed a few monthly payments, and by the time I had enough money to send the payment, the minimum balance would be doubled or tripled, leaving me to send only what I had. The next month I'd still be behind in my payments, and that was when I started to figure out what interest really meant...
Liat Kaplan's direction creates a slick synchronicity between characters, keeping the emotion at a dramatic rather than melodramatic level. In places, this results in woodenness, but it is kept to a minimum even in the potentially static second and third acts. Even in the most turgid moments of the plot the emphasis on appropriateness and refinement does not give way to the hackneyed and postured acting that has labeled opera in the minds of many as a dramatic dead...