Word: socializes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Governor Michael S. Dukakis tomorrow announces tax increases intended to prevent budget cuts in social programs, he will continue the agressively defensive tone initiated during the State of the State address last week...
Dukakis announced last week that he would not seek reelection in 1990, a move observers say will make it necessary for him to aggressively defend the policies of the last six years. The governor has decided that a tax increase is necessary to preserve his administration's social programs, State House sources...
...been stregnthened [by the announcement]," says former Democratic State Senator George Bachrach. "But he has seen the limiting of his possible agenda on the peripheral issues." He said last week, "As a lame duck, he will be unable to make demands upon the legislature on many legislative and social issues that are of concern...
...devised to meet Gramm-Rudman, "which is a useful fiction to give the illusion of progress," and another that shows the real deficit. The real deficit for fiscal 1990 will not be $110 billion but more like $230 billion. Fancy bookkeeping like a $65 billion loan from the Social Security trust fund to the Treasury keeps the total down...
Egon Krenz, 52, succeeds the deposed Erich Honecker, 77, but Krenz's hard-line credentials suggest that social and economic reform will not soon follow. -- In South Africa, the white government and black leaders tiptoe closer to negotiations. -- An interview with black leader Walter Sisulu. -- Touchy times for the Soviet press -- and Boris Yeltsin...