The legislation provoked dire warnings of fiscal turmoil from a handful of dissenters.

But their vastly different approaches to government are obsolete in an era of fiscal turmoil, when California has lost its allure.

California was thrown back into fiscal turmoil after the Legislature failed to pass additional taxes to balance the budget.

The Texas Legislature today approved a $5.7 billion increase in taxes, ending a year of fiscal turmoil brought on by the devastating downturn in the oil industry.

The money raised from ticket sales and sent east, about $10,000 in all, is not exactly going to save the city from fiscal turmoil.

Where a stabilizing population can offer economic succor to one country, it may wreak fiscal turmoil in the next.

But after taking office in a time of perhaps even greater fiscal turmoil, Mr. Koch managed to keep his administration focused on that problem.

As he recalled now, the 1930s had been a period of fiscal turmoil in many countries, including the United States of America.

With the state in fiscal turmoil, the Legislature does not seem inclined to overrule him.

Oh, and of course the fiscal turmoil in the EU.