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...state gas-tax revenues into building bicycle lanes and footpaths. These paths would be built along highways, streets and in parks. The bill also says that the state may restrict paths to nonmotorized vehicles. If Governor Tom McCall signs the bill into law, Oregon's biennial budget will include about $2.6 million for pedalers and pedestrians. Last week the U.S. Transportation Department promised to supplement state funds for bike-path construction, hiking Oregon's potential two-year take to as much as $4.9 million...
With an unprecedented array of salable airpower, four acres of choice display space at Le Bourget and phalanxes of salesmen in attendance, the Soviets were clearly ready for business. That is a departure from their traditional posture at the biennial show, which they have regarded in the past as merely a showcase for their new technology. This year could be different. With the U.S. out of the SST race and having trouble with the Lockheed L-1011 airbus, the Russians may finally be in a position to take advantage of their growing potential in commercial aircraft sales...
...described in the latest U.S. Dictionary of Occupational Titles, and 82 million are working at them. But it is hard to fit man to title. As a purely practical matter, college students would be well advised to study the Labor Department's biennial Occupational Outlook Handbook, the mainstay of any careers counselor. It points out, for example, that the elementary-teaching field threatens to become overcrowded, but the outlook is better for teachers of the handicapped and of children in both urban ghettos and rural districts. It also describes other kinds of work like oceanography, which will be used...
...politicians across the country savored the swearing-in season, California Governor Ronald Reagan paused long enough to question the process that elected them. In his State of the State speech, Reagan suggested shortening the biennial spasm of campaigning by moving his state's primary from June to September. It would, as Reagan noted, save both money and the public patience. The chief stumbling block to such a plan is that delegates to presidential nominating conventions are chosen in the primary; those conventions are normally held in July and August. But if anyone takes Reagan's plan seriously enough...
...Give us the right to cut their guts!" shouted an angry delegate into a microphone at the United Steelworkers' biennial convention in Atlantic City last week. "Give us back our dignity. Give us the right to strike again!" That outburst, thunderously applauded by 3,500 union men, pointed up the increasingly rebellious mood among the nation's 1,200,000 Steelworkers-and the rising odds on a strike in the mills when contracts expire next...