Word: propped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration's current policy, to prop up Duarte long enough to get some rudimentary democratic institutions and economic reforms in place, is in plenty of trouble on the ground in El Salvador; and it is couched in some of the more bellicose, almost hysterical idioms of Haigspeak back in Washington. But as long as the Administration seeks to curb the abuses of the regime and discourage the political ambitions of the military, providing American assistance against the guerrillas is a reasonable and responsible course. The humanitarian as well as geopolitical goal of the U.S. is to stop the escalation...
Early morning City Council meetings apparently--make for unanimous decisions. At an 8 a.m. meeting Tuesday morning the council decided without opposition to allow city residents the chance to over-ride Prop 2 1/2 with a mid-April referendum. Without a fiscal crisis to rally around, however, the council will probably revert to its normally split voting at next Monday night's regular session...
...candidates felt that Prop, 2 1/2 will force politicians to be more efficient and aware of budgetary restraints in the future...
Evelyn Murphy, the only female candidate and state Secretary of Environmental Affairs under former governor Michael Dukakis, said the politician's task is not to fault Prop, 2 1/2 but "to get tax dollars to work harder," Government must "set sensible priorities" and abolish unnecessary services, she added...
Saying that the "voters have cut off their noses to spite their faces," Middlesex Assistant District Attorney John Kerry said Prop 2 1/2 is a protest of the "grotesque failure" of previous administrations and fitting retaliation to "years of wastefulness...