Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although his own state budget reflected a 4% increase, the new Governor imposed a spending ceiling on every municipality in the state as a step toward meeting his campaign promise of a $500 million reduction in property taxes. Mayors and other local officials protested so loudly that King retreated a bit, agreeing that if two-thirds of a community's voters approved higher spending, its cap would be lifted. Still, most Massachusetts politicians regard the effort as hamhanded, taking no account of growth or inflation. Says a state senator: "Things are more professional on the Quincy city council...
...might be injured during a blackout if he worked on lines that were kept "live" by Greenwald's windmill. Intent on striking a blow against monopolies, Greenwald appealed to the state Public Service Commission. Said he: "People are trying to become more self-sufficient. The windmill is a step in that direction." The commission ruled last week that the utility was being unreasonable in asking Greenwald "to indemnify the company against its own negligence." The commission ordered the utility to plug into the windmill without any strings. As Cervantes put it: "Those who'll play with cats must...
Changes in rape laws have been pressed by women's rights groups, who argue that rape victims have too often been "raped a second time" by the criminal justice system, and by law reformers, who want rape treated rationally, like any other violent crime. One step has been to drop the word rape. Many of the new statutes speak in terms of sexual assault, sexual battery or criminal sexual conduct and carefully define...
...months and even years if the Administration does not act effectively to make the fuel more attractive. In the long term, nothing is more important than enacting legislation to curb the regulatory rampages of the EPA, which in most cases is answerable to nobody. Right now, the most effective step the President can take is to free the price of domestic crude oil. As it floats up to world levels, bargain-basement coal will look more and more like the attractive alternative the White House keeps insisting...
...character. His comments when both he and his fictional doppelgänger love and lose: "He had been able to contemplate the story of Gus Howkins ... precisely because that story had been his companion through all the recent events in his life. It had gone along with him, step by step, providing an alternative existence that had strangely held to the same contours as his actual one. It had been a life-saving overspill...