Word: renews
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...developed nation without a public source of money for the arts. He says he has never met House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the force behind the Republican effort to "zero out" federal cultural funding, but relishes an imagined encounter: "I would say, 'Chairman Newt, this is not the way to renew American civilization. You are making a big mistake.'" Which, for Hughes, would be a considerable understatement...
JESSE HELMS 97 Senators backhand his gay bashing and renew funding for AIDS...
...thrust against PBS, therefore, seems to be faltering. On this Gingrich is too extreme for his own troops. The Speaker of the House, when he speaks on cultural affairs, is truly a wonder. Here he is, prating and preening like a parrot on a stump about the need to renew American civilization. This is the guy who hates the '60s but reincarnates them in his 40-acres-and-a-laptop Utopianism; who thinks kitsch "futurologists" like Alvin and Heidi Toffler are gurus and that a fund-raising cultist like Arianna Huffington is an intellectual. He filled his cable-TV sermons...
Reeves also warned that deep cuts in Cambridge's budget could force the city to renew its efforts to tax the property owned by universities in Cambridge, calling them "the real bases of wealth in their community...
Reeves warned that Cambridge may have to renew its campaign to gain taxing authority over its universities if Congress imposes cuts in aid to municipal governments...