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Transportation Secretary Federico Pena got out the budget shears today and proposed deep cuts in his federal department that will save $6.4 billion over five years. Pena proposed collapsing 10 DOT divisions into three, reducing staff 12 percent by 1999 and privatizing several key functions. Under the plan, most of the department would be consolidated into an Intermodal Transportation Administration, which would assume the functions of highway, railway and other transit offices. Air traffic control would handled by a quasi-independent body outside the Department. Legal and accounting duplication would be eliminated. Pena will send a detailed plan by March...
There might be some obvious drawbacks to the change, however. Students who have outstanding payments on their term bill will have to venture off to the Term Bill Office at Holyoke Center to clear their account before returning to register. This means no more convenient "red dot lines" for delinquent would-be scholars. To make the process smoother, though, the Term Bill Office will be sending reminders to students who still owe money to the University. Consequently, the few people who will be inconvenienced by this change have only themselves to blame...
...past, students with unpaid expenses waited in the "red dot line" until their fines were cleared. There will be no red dot lines this year...
...there was Earth, barely discernible against the background of stars, an image that inspired the title of The Pale Blue Dot (Random House; 429 pages; $35), the ninth book by astronomer and planetary scientist Carl Sagan. Voyager's homeward glance was his idea, and the sight was humbling. "There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits," he writes, "than this distant image of our tiny world." To say nothing of the folly of wars, which from space would appear to be little more than "the squabbles of mites on a plum...
...with Federal safety oversight remaining); making the Federal Housing Administration, which guarantees mortgages, another quasi-independent entity; squeezing 60 housing programs into four; and streamlining many Department of Transportation programs into an $11 billion block grant controlled by states. Probably next on the block, White House aides whispered: cutting DOT's staff of 106,000 in half over two years; eliminating money-losing Amtrak's subsidy over five years, cutting in half the Department of Energy's annual budget to $10.6 billion; and scooping about $700 million from HUD's nearly $30 billion budget. Overall, Clinton says...