Word: passing
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...Still, there’s more. A unified Democratic government passed a partisan $787 billion stimulus bill and another $410 billion spending bill. After promising to end the Republican tenure of pork-barrel spending, these massive bills included titanic lists of pork projects. The projected budget deficit for the fiscal year 2009 grew to $1.8 trillion, or a shocking and nearly unprecedented 12.3 percent of our gross domestic product. They then proceeded to pass a new record-breaking $3.6 trillion budget for the upcoming year...
...people and the stories, as well as the myth and the name. It is the realization that, just like Harvard is more than the sum of her students, what defines each of us is not just our individual selves, but also how we connect to the past and pass the better parts onto the future...
Those families with developmentally disabled persons will not let this budget pass without a fight. There have already been protests, letters sent to congressmen, and advocacy campaigns. And a victory has already been won—on May 20, the state legislature voted in favor of an increase in the state sales tax, in order to help assuage the damage from these deep cuts. But this raise in revenue still leaves many services closed come the fiscal year 2010. If Massachusetts chooses to think with moral sense and fiscal reason, it will not cut funding to some of its most...
...nuclear weapons and was proposed to take effect on Oct. 1, 1985. Those who rallied behind the referendum claimed that the city would not be completely nuclear-free even if it were to pass, however. Major exemptions to the law would have included nuclear medicinal research and any other nuclear research not intended primarily for the development of weaponry...
...their contributions did not have to be reported until after they blitzed the city with ads,” said James K. Hammerman ’83—’84, who worked with Boston Mobilization for Survival to pass the legislation...