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Drafted by Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner, the blueprint for repairing America's crumbling roads and easing airport congestion is almost silent on how to pay for what it recommends. Where it is specific, the plan proposes new or additional "user fees" and surcharges for air travelers and new authority for states to turn federally financed highways into toll roads. Translation: Bush wants to improve Americans' mobility, but he would prefer that local politicians raise the funds needed to break the transportation gridlock...
...less perverse but also debatable strain of conventional criticism is that Gorbachev is improvising without a blueprint. According to three cliches now in vogue, he is riding a tiger, trying to stay one step ahead of the sheriff, leaping from one ice floe to another. In short, he has lost control of events and doesn't really know what he is doing...
...have pushed to the back of their minds the dark shadows of two world wars. They have promised to unite what they hope will be a new Germany. One way to make certain that the result is a European Germany will be for the Europeans to complete the unification blueprint they agreed on in Ottawa last week...
University administrators have billed the capital campaign as Harvard's blueprint for the future, saying that the decisions made now will inform the identity and goals of this institution for decades to come. Still, as deans and their committees decide what Harvard should spend money on in the coming years, most University fundraisers acknowledge that these academic decisions will be tempered by external and nonacademic financial considerations. What donors are willing to fund and how those donors envision Harvard may well affect the real outcome of the University's academic priorities...
...candidate members of the Central Committee and more than a hundred guests to join in expressing their views. This time the response was a unanimous show of hands. The platform, which still must be approved by the party's congress this summer, is not so much a specific blueprint as a rough sketch for reform. Some Central Committee members complained that they received the document only when they arrived for the plenum -- suggesting that it was either drafted in haste or deliberately held back to put conservative forces at a disadvantage. The major points...