Word: money
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis cut a total of $210 million in local aid from the state budget, $110 million by a conditional veto. These funds could be restored if the money become available. On Wednesday, the House and Senate voted overwhelmingly to restore the remaining $100 million, which Dukakis vetoed directly...
Supporters of the health care law said the changes sponsored by Woodward and Forman would actually cost the state money. Delaying the new law might temporarily help small businesses, they said, but would force state taxpayers to continue paying medical costs that no one else will assume...
...they know I have final say. They know there are things I'm going to demand. If they want to do the film, these things have to be met, or else we don't do it." But Lee is in a precarious position: he needs the power, muscle and money of a major studio to market and distribute his films, while still protecting his work. "He is fighting for his creative life," says former Columbia Pictures President David Picker, who worked with Lee on School Daze...
...Jeff Goldblum (The Fly) is her pettish steward Malvolio, John Amos (Roots) her drunken uncle Sir Toby Belch and Gregory Hines (The Cotton Club) Toby's companion in ribaldry, the jester Feste. Stephen Collins (Tattinger's) is the duke who desires Olivia, and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (The Color of Money) the girl-masquerading-as- a -pageboy sent to plead his case. Among other screen and stage stalwarts rounding out the troupe is Charlaine Woodard (Ain't Misbehavin') as the merrily scheming maid Maria...
...suggested that the Soviets unilaterally withdraw their 40,000 troops stationed on Polish soil; Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev called the idea "propaganda." Bush has vaguer ideas about how to lend Poland more practical help, but aides warn that any U.S. plan won't be accompanied by a "potful of money...