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Warning of "runaway growth" in state spending, the influential House Democrat offered a pared-down budget with a bottom line of $12.3 billion in direct appropriations, compared to the $12.87 billion proposed last month by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis.
"All of those figures in there are phony. You know it and I know it. If you came in here with a pared-down budget, with some basis in reality, we could've been in the pot together," Scaccia said.
"In devising a story, therefore, the first thing that comes to my mind is an image," explained Italo Calvino, Italy's master fabulist, shortly before his death in 1985. Some of his images -- like that of the boy philosophe who scrambled up an oak and never descended again in The...
The council must whittle down almost $109,000in grant requests from 96 applicants thissemester, said Kelsen. Last semester's $17,500 ingrants was pared down from original requeststotaling more than $43,000, he said. The largestgrants awarded by the council have traditionallybeen in the $1000 range.
Today in Worcester, Harvard (1-1 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) faces a pared-down Crusader version in a Mass Pike matchup. Kickoff is slated for 1:30 p.m. (WHRB, 95.3).