Word: propped
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...everyone who wants to build along the oceanfront, would no longer be able to protect it from ugly McMansions and ensure public beach access. And developers could build homes on dangerously steep slopes or plop factories into residential neighborhoods. More imaginatively, the nonpartisan California Budget Project argues that because Prop 90 applies to consumer-protection laws, if the state restricted ATM fees, it would have to compensate banks for the revenue they would lose because of the capped charges...
...give it forced perspective, a trick that is also being used on the Mainstage in “The Marriage of Bette and Boo.” The set becomes increasingly littered with an assortment of objects that I would venture to guess comprise one of the more unusual prop lists in Ex history—including bottles for cleaning supplies, shoes, lobsters, a baby carriage, and a cabbage, adding to the general sense of hysteria. Hysterical is a good general descriptor for “Dinner.” At root, the play is 90 minutes of people inflicting...
...Stephen Bing, 41, a Hollywood producer who was, until now, best known for fathering actress Elizabeth Hurley's baby out of wedlock. Bing, heir to a $600 million New York real estate fortune and a generous contributor to Democratic candidates, has spent $40 million of his own money on Prop 87 so far. Though he won't talk to the media, he has recruited two prominent spokesmen, former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore, as well as such Hollywood supporters as Julia Roberts, Geena Davis and Jamie Lee Curtis...
...Both Clinton and Gore appear in TV ads for the initiative. "Prop 87 is the one thing Californians can do now to clean up the air, help stop the climate crisis and free us from foreign oil," Gore says in his spot. Clinton, accompanied by Davis (who starred as the first female President on last season's TV series Commander in Chief) appeared at a Prop 87 rally at the University of California in Los Angeles last week. "California is being given an opportunity and an obligation to do something remarkable to save the planet," Clinton told the crowd...
...initiative that would impose a tax on oil companies for drilling in California - and use the $4 billion raised over 10 years to fund the development of "cleaner" and "cheaper" energy. "Proposition 87 is 100% a subsidy," says Cleantech blogger and energy investor Neal Dikeman, who is opposed to Prop. 87's call for the creation of a new state bureaucracy spending $4 billion on "an undefined bunch of renewable programs," and prefers that the money come from California's General Fund or by raising taxes. Khosla maintains that Prop. 87 is a "limited, one-time extraction fee" that levels...