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...cities are also trying to cope with inflated costs, recession-shrunk revenues and mounting debt. Like New York, they are laying off employees, cutting services (including, in some cases, police and fire protection, and garbage pickup), borrowing heavily against the future and raising taxes-all actions that could weaken the national economy's recovery from recession...
...backers had widely distributed to Congress and the press a document listing the Governor's environmental accomplishments back home. Embarrassingly, of 23 such "achievements," the private Environmental Defense Fund discovered that most had either been forced on Wyoming by the Federal Government or were actually designed to weaken existing laws. Supporters of Hathaway also claimed that 49 Governors backed his nomination; under scrutiny, only 35 such endorsements turned...
UMass President Robert C. Wood said the university would be forced to rank its programs by priority because a 10 per cent cut applied across the board would weaken every program...
...current revival of stock prices and trading volume-there is still a pervasive worry over the future of the stock market as a capital-raising mechanism. The Big Board's Needham fears that negotiated commissions and a central market could decrease incentive to belong to the N.Y.S.E. and weaken the nation's oldest and most important stock exchange. He worries also that the changes will tend to increase institutional dominance of the market, making it increasingly inhospitable to individuals. They will continue doing what they have been doing for some time: investing elsewhere-in commodities or funds that...
...tried without success to weaken Wyoming's proposed air pollution law with variances he believed necessary to the "economic and social development of the state." He suggested that oil and gas wells should not be covered by a law prohibiting discharge of waste into navigable streams. He supported industrial exploitation of Wyoming's energy resources, favoring immediate oil shale development and helping to triple the amount of state land leased for coal mining...