Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other states should have the Kansas problem: What to do with so much money? Even as New York's Governor Hugh Carey was trying to wring $1 billion in revenue measures out of his legislature to help wipe out a huge deficit, frugal Kansas was sitting on a budget...
Leslie Keenan, Molly MacLean and Steve Jacobs, as three of Miss Lonelyhearts' correspondents, deliver poignant pleas for help in dramatically lighted and staged sequences. MacLean's portrayal of a Puerto Rican woman plagued by kidney trouble and unwanted pregnancies is one of the highlights of the production.
Marcus said she often submitted to the pleas of despondent paper writers who had deadlines and had no one to type their papers. Marcus found herself doing all of her typing after midnight, because "that's the only thing I could do then."
But Ford's most telling argument in turning aside pleas for more action will be that by cutting taxes $22 billion this year, the U.S. has already done more to stimulate its economy than any other nation represented at the summit-and with results that show.
Ignoring pleas from his supporters for a recount, State Senator Joseph F. Timilty late last night conceded defeat in the Boston mayoral election.