Word: paring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might have even tried pot when they were younger have conveyed their concern to me," Murphy says. "They're 25 or 26, and although they personally support the bill, they're afraid they might get killed in their district for supporting it." With the imminent redistricting that will pare the 240-member lower chamber down to 160 representatives, House legislators have never been so conscious of treading lightly on the sore spots of some constituents. The House is clearly the iceberg which might sink the measure...
...there were charges of voting fraud in other areas, so Rhode Island Attorney General Julius Michaelson convened a grand jury to investigate. While the jury was sniffing around, an anonymous tipster called the state police and told them that Bailey had an arrest record. State Police Captain Edward Pare found that Bailey had pleaded guilty in 1962 to shoplifting suits from a store in Cheltenham, Pa. He had paid a $100 fine and spent 60 days in jail. Pare also found that Bailey had been arrested in Massachusetts and Michigan, but he could not find out the disposition of those...
...passed to the legislature the problem of whether he was eligible to serve. On Jan. 4 the other 99 legislators were sworn in while Bailey sat silently at his desk, his head bowed. The legislature appointed a committee to review the case, and that brought in the industrious Captain Pare. In 1961, Pare reported, Bailey was convicted in Medford, Mass., for possession of $2,112 worth of stolen goods and fined $100; two years later, again in Medford, police seized Bailey with $700 worth of hot merchandise. This time he was fined $200 and given two years' probation. Then...
DEFENSE. Former Submariner Carter is pledged to reducing defense costs by $5 billion to $7 billion without specifying how or where, though he has often spoken of "tighter management and elimination of waste." He probably can safely pare some $5 billion from Ford's proposed defense budget for fiscal 1978, which is expected to be about $125 billion, v. the $108.8 billion appropriated by Congress for the current year. Half of that total is in personnel costs, and the President-elect most probably will trim away at them...
Easier said than done, of course. Much of Los Angeles County's $3.3 billion annual budget consists of mandated programs that cannot be trimmed. So the board's first act was to pare the county's $2.4 million contribution to air-pollution control-a saving of $1 a year for the average homeowner. Yet something, somewhere, is going to have to give-sooner rather than later...