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...State of the State address last month, Weld said he hoped to lower tax rates because an improving economy may lead to a budget surplus. Barrett says he would rather spend this money on government programs than return it to people...
Discipline: C-. The sole problem with the penalty kill unit is that it is pretty winded by now, having had to kill a surplus of stupid penalties. Time and time again, Tomassoni has justly criticized his players' lack of discipline in crucial moment--as the RPI loss showed most dramatically, a couple of foolish lapses of concentration can undo the good minutes of effort surrounding them...
...hearty snowfall resolves another conundrum of local government: Cambridge's boastful claims of a budget surplus. If a town taxes, yet provides no services, the surplus is not much of an accomplishment and even less of a mystery. Well, perhaps "no services" is a bit of exaggeration. Cambridge is at least generous in providing Commissions on Animal Rights, Declarations of Nuclear Free Zone Status, replanting cermonies for Liberty Trees, and Domestic Partner Benefits (even for those, presumably, whose job it is to not plow the snow...
...Vienna just before Thanksgiving, could not agree on a plan to cut production. Output from non-OPEC sources is rising too, and there is a possibility that United Nations sanctions against Iraq will be eased, allowing some Iraqi oil to flow abroad again. All that adds to a heavy surplus of supply over demand...
...make much difference. Noel Prado, 37, farms 98 acres in Vegas, southeast of Havana, on which he must produce his government allotment of sugarcane. He seems content with Castro's policies. "Food is not a problem here," he says, patting his big stomach. He can sell some of his surplus peanuts, sweet potatoes, coffee, sheep and pigs. City friends travel 25 miles from the capital to barter for his vegetables and meat, but since he has no fertilizer, no pesticides and no electricity to pump water for irrigation, his production will not increase soon. He hopes private ownership will encourage...