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Prop 2 1/2 was approved during a nationwide tide of anti-tax sentiment, at a time when high property taxes were soaring even higher. In that political climate, many local governments were pegged as wasteful bureaucracies which overspent the revenue they collected...
...only must governments and industries take immediate action to stem the tide of global warming, but individual consumers must also pitch in to combat environmental destruction, the speakers said...
...issue is no longer really apartheid; it is political power. Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha explains that the government began to shift away from apartheid when the National Party realized that it was impossible to stem the tide of blacks moving to urban areas in search of employment. "As the economic realities overwhelmed the dream," he says, "so did we come to realize that there were consequences of these policies that were indeed oppressive and humiliating." Bowing to those realities, P.W. Botha scrapped the hated pass laws...
Fears of unrest were also sounded in Bonn, where authorities are worried about ferment within East Germany and the continuing tide of immigrants to the West, which is still running at about 2,000 a day. A top official of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government, wary of calling too brazenly for unification, urged another formulation. East Berlin, he suggested, should declare that a federal state binding together the two Germanys is the goal of both countries. That, West German officials felt, might help reassure would-be immigrants and stanch the flow...
...ratings do not show it: TBS's audience in December was the highest in its history. The creation of TNT now seems like a marketing masterstroke. "They are like two brands put out by the same manufacturer," says Gerry Hogan, president of Turner Entertainment. "Like Procter & Gamble producing both Tide and Cheer...