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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposal, referred to simply as the L.A. plan, is 5,500 pages long and 3 ft. high, and was five years in the making. It calls for elimination of 70% of smog-producing emissions in the Los Angeles area by the year 2000. In the plan's first five-year phase, 123 separate regulations will ban the use of aerosol hair sprays and deodorants and require companies, regardless of the cost, to install the best antismog equipment available. But one of the plan's primary objectives is to break the city's addiction to the internal-combustion engine. First...
...year, opponents believe the price tag could be as high as $15 billion a year. A study prepared at the University of Southern California calculated the resultant loss in jobs -- mainly from companies forced by added antismog costs to relocate -- to be in excess of 30,000. "This area used to be called the promised land," complained Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich, one of two members of the district management board who voted against passage. "Now it's going to be a wasteland...
...total organization, they would realize that social activities comprise only one of the various activities of the BSA. For example, did Mr. Hsia notice that, during the first weekend of February, the BSA sponsored the Inter Collegiate Conference (ICC), in which Black students from Ivy League and Boston area schools came together at Harvard to discuss the future of Blacks in America. In addition, during the month of February, the BSA sponsored a multitude of events, only one of which was a dance, to celebrate Black History Month. Moreover, the BSA sponsors a Big Brother/Sister program in which incoming Black...
Bernstein added that there has been "an unfortunate growth in the area of gossip and celebrity journalism...reporting is really the last priority for the networks...
Harvard already donates equipment to many area schools...