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...while hearings are continuing into June to deal with last-minute changes in the budget, the city will likely take up all of its fiscal slack by coming within $1 million of its $130 million levy limit--the property tax ceiling established by Proposition 2 1/2, a 1981 law which limits annual property tax increases to 2.5 percent...
Harvard played the game without Tri-Captain and leading scorer Mick Cavouti, who sat out with a leg injury. Fellow captain Tim Reilly picked up much of the slack, tallying one goal and one assist, while sophomore Dave Chaney helped pace the offense...
Gorbachev reached the same conclusion, and beginning in 1988 he ordered cutbacks in both military production and manpower. He also directed defense plants to convert further to civilian production. They have always had nonmilitary production lines to take up the slack in weapons cycles, but now they were told to increase the proportion of consumer goods from 40% of their total output to 60% by 1995. If the military-industrial complex was as competent as it claimed, Gorbachev wanted to use it as the locomotive to power his economic reforms...
...were aware that they were pretty far behind, but we couldn't slack off at all," sophomore Diane Henry said. "We just concentrated on future races and pulled really hard. We knew we had to win by a lot to prove that we're a legitimate crew...
...wave of layoffs last week provided fresh evidence of just how vulnerable jobs can be. CBS said its profits fell 73% in the first quarter, to $23.3 million, and announced plans to dismiss 400 workers. In Boston GTE said slack defense spending meant layoffs for 500 of its workers at a unit that makes military communications equipment. Grumman said the slowdown will force it to cut 1,900 jobs. In Baltimore, insurer USF&G said it will reduce its work force by 1,900 positions...