Word: would
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...Boston Globe reported yesterday that Keverian telephoned several House chairs over the weekend and told them they would have to resign their positions if they refused to support the package...
...Mark Roosevelt '74 (D-Boston) said the package would be attacked heavily on the House floor but will probably pass because of Keverian's strong influence. Last week, key lawmakers, including Senate President William M. Bulger (D-Boston) and House Majority Leader Charles F. Flaherty (D-Cambridge) said the introduction of a tax hike was inevitable...
...weeks ago, the House passed a deficit reduction bill estimated at $368 million, which the Senate will consider later this week. Several House members cited Keverian's lack of strong leadership as a major factor in the defeat of one of the bill's provisions, which would have allowed the state to reclaim $46 million in beverage deposits form the soda and beer industry...
...official CTK news agency said Parliament, until now a rubber-stamp body under firm Communist control, also would be open to discussion of any draft laws. Vladimir Janku, head of the state's commission on church affairs, was quoted as saying these changes would include new laws on religion that would end state control over churches and the criticized practice of licensing priests...
...made in 1989 but in 1920, during a time of "yellow peril" panic over Japanese immigration to the U.S. But they are not much different from the alarmed press comments that are now greeting Japan's continuing economic ventures. When the Sony Corp. announced in September that it would buy Columbia Pictures Entertainment, for example, Newsweek called the deal "the biggest advance so far in a Japanese invasion of Hollywood." An entertainment-industry executive quoted by the Washington Post thought the acquisition might be "bad for America," as did an economist who saw "a potential for propaganda...