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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BOSTON--In the second week of debate on a bill aimed at reducing the state's $730 million deficit, the House of Representatives yesterday scrapped a $46 million initiative to reclaim beverage deposits...
...initiative--part of a $401 million package of budget cuts and new, non-tax revenues--would have forced the bottling industry to give the state money from unclaimed bottle and can deposits. Currently, companies hold aside deposit money in a separate fund and dole it out to stores when they return the empty containers...
Pini said such a program would help the city make up for a $3.7 million cut in state aid to Cambridge...
...sustained push for recycling now could have additional benefits in the future. As Massachusetts' landfills approach full capacity, the state seems likely to enact some kind of mandatory recycling legislation in the next few years. If Harvard acts now, it can avoid the rush. The University should initiate a recycling progam on its own terms, instead of waiting until recycling systems are a seller's market...
Deputies appealed for truly free elections, a coalition government and removal from the constitution of language declaring their nation a socialist state...