Word: state
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...Neither I nor any member of the Democratic leadership would mortgage the future of this state for any presidential campaign," Keverian said...
...deficit-reduction plan as it now stands cuts more than $130 million for state agency spending and raises additional non-tax revenues, as well as mandates savings in some government programs, including Medicaid...
Keverian said further cuts would not be possible without destroying the programs he said makes Massachusetts a state with a reputation for compassion...
...plum commissions -- an office building in Tokyo, a research complex at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University, the Columbus convention center. Meanwhile, he will bask this week in the celebrations surrounding the dedication of his first major building, the $43 million Wexner Center for the Visual Arts at the Ohio State University in Columbus...
Nonetheless, a subdued hope of movement surrounded the news last week that the U.S. had consented to repay $567 million in frozen Iranian assets. The agreement was reached after two days of negotiations between State Department legal adviser Abraham Sofaer and a senior adviser to Iran's President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. The two met in the Hague, site of the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal that was set up as part of the 1981 deal that freed the 62 American embassy hostages in Tehran. Both sides agreed that Iran will be paid most of the balance remaining...