Word: wolfing
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...What I'm foreseeing is a cutting of federal funds even more than in the past," said Cambridge Mayor Alice K. Wolf. "In the end they won't fund money, they'll just retract money. It's all smoke and mirrors," she said, referring to the federal government's attempts to camouflage cuts by switching funding from one program to another...
...result of the federal cuts, "we're going to have very major cuts in Cambridge," Wolf said...
...Wolf said the city might soon be forced to pick up a $1 million tab for teacher pensions that Massachusetts may no longer fund. And she said new charges on the city will include a $1.4 million charge for Medicare payments...
...their critics, are these modern specimens of great powers. When the call to battle Saddam Hussein bugled forth, Germany and Japan begged off as conscientious objectors. Though they have flourished and grown rich behind U.S. defense cordons, both countries quailed at the call to arms. War with Iraq? The wolf that ate Kuwait was not at their door. Deterring aggression? Bonn's attitude amounted to "Let George do it." Standing fast by a security partner? Washington found it apt that Tokyo is ringing in the Year of the Sheep...
...Work Force Program was part of a package of state-supported services cut in September as a result of a tightening state budget, according to Mayor Alice K. Wolf. "This is a very good program and an important program," she said, adding that the city will have to "find different ways of being able to fund the programs that are being lost because of cuts at the state level...