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After three years under the spending limits imposed by Proposition 13, California is at the frontier of government retrenchment. Medical clinics for the poor are shutting down, parks are going to seed and the state's far-flung highway system is in disrepair. Despite such cutbacks, a deficit of at least $75 million in this fiscal year's state budget looks likely. But forced austerity is not universal. California's state legislators have seen fit to spare one group from the draconian reductions: themselves. While the expenditures in real dollars on social services have decreased, the money...
...large degree, the coach's fears materialized. Blessed with less than heavenly draws, Hulbert and Corrigan dropped out in the first round, Hulbert to number-three seed Zorlene Goodman and Corrigan to number-one seed Nina Porter of Trinity. Kaye, after winning her first match, unsuccessfully ran into number-two seed Karen Kelso...
Miraculously, it was Staley, arm in a sling (bursitis of the shoulder) until three days before the tournament, whose skills were at their sharpest. The freshman raced through Johns Hopkins' Linzie Gould and number-four seed Patrice McConnel of Princeton before succumbing to Porter in the semis...
...achieve a comprehensive settlement, as most Arabs hope it will, even the radical states may also want to rally be hind the Fahd plan, thus putting more pressure on the U.S. to endorse its general goals. Said an Arab editor last week: "The Fahd plan is only a seed that has been planted now. It can hang around until it is ripe." Saudi patience and Saudi money cannot be discounted too early or too easily in the struggle for a unified Arab peace plan...
...writer of Renault's re-creative powers had little difficulty moving from Theseus, mythical founder of a unified Attica, to Alexander the Great, who spread the seed of Hellenism across Asia Minor, North Africa and the brow of India. In Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy, Renault took the most romantic of all military heroes from his beginnings as son of Philip of Macedon through his glories as youthful conqueror...