Word: passes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis last month proposed an increase of $120 million in aid to local cities and towns, but tied it to approval of his controversial tax package. House Speaker George Keverian (D-Everett) said yesterday the aid package will most likely not pass the legislature...
Since twelve of the 13 council members support the proposal, it should pass easily. But the National Rifle Association plans to use its lobbying muscle to persuade Congress, which can overrule the council's decisions, to shoot down Clarke's plan. "It's another attempt by the D.C. government to put the blame on somebody else for its failure to deal with violent crime," says N.R.A. assistant general counsel Richard Gardiner. A veto is no cinch: only twice in the past 14 years has Congress vetoed a law enacted by the district...
...legs were deeply scarred from the heavy metal apparatus once tightly fastened to it. It was, I announced to my parents' horror, the electric chair, liberated the night before from the ancient and abandoned Connecticut state prison. The Chair was too big a prize for high school kids to pass up. Sitting in it brought my imagination to life, as if I were its next official guest. My teenage sensibilities told me this was something people should not do to one another, and though my father did not think the escapade clever and made me return the chair...
...take a semester off if an amazing part came along that I couldn't pass up," says Salenger, who won the 1984 Youth in Films award for Best Actress for her role as the title character in The Journey of Natty Gann...
Junior John Murphy took the puck down the left side during the closing seconds of a Crimson power-play and fired a pass off to Weisbrod, who was by the right post. The sophomore tipped it in, and Harvard led, 4-1, with 1:13 to play in the second stanza...