Word: cleanup
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...Victory. I think it is a mandate for change, for cleanup, for efficiency, and it also reflects the fact that there is a new generation that is voting. The voting age has dropped substantially. More than half the electorate is under 40 for the first time...
While Michigan resisted the reduction, other states with healthy surpluses are under pressure to trim taxes and restore program cuts. In New Jersey, where the 1985 surplus may wind up as high as $800 million, politicians from both parties have put toxic-waste cleanup at the top of a long list of demands. New York Governor Mario Cuomo, who reports a surplus of $207 million, is designing a broad tax-reform plan that will include income tax reductions. In California, Governor George Deukmejian plans to pump money into education, highway construction and environmental projects. Says William Hamm, an analyst...
...slowly. Ruckelshaus urged action to reduce the impact of acid rain, but when he was overruled by the White House, he stoutly defended the Administration's decision merely to order more studies of the problem. Critics also note that Ruckelshaus opposed early renewal of the $1.6 billion waste-cleanup superfund. "He leaves almost nothing of permanence as a legacy," says Jonathan Lash, a spokesman for the Natural Resources Defense Council...
Harvard plans to build a new kitchen in the passageway between Kirkland and Eliot Houses this summer in an effort to expand seating in the two dining halls and ease preparation and cleanup for food workers, officials said yesterday...
...plan, if implemented, would greatly increase chances for improvements in harbor cleanup and sewage treatment, said Metropolitan District Commission executive assistant Stephen P. Burgay...