Word: equipped
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Having got the organization and the man, though, the Administration must still equip itself with an effective energy strategy. Simon promised to get moving on that immediately, pledging a decision by the end of this month on the hardest problem: whether to start gasoline rationing. Some Washingtonians have already concluded that he will say no. Their reasoning: Love is said to have been bounced from the top energy post because, after initial reluctance, he concluded that rationing was inevitable. Also, Simon retains his post as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. That means that his immediate boss remains Treasury Secretary George...
...trouble with school, argues Coleman, is that its focus is too narrow. At their best, schools equip the young with basic skills, some knowledge of their heritage, and a taste for learning. But schools are not designed to provide such adult necessities as the ability to manage one's own affairs or to engage in "intense, concentrated involvement in an activity." Nor are they the place for learning how to take responsibility for and work with others...
First the price for fixing up San Clemente was announced as $39,525. Then, as with some giant roast beef, the figure kept rising. By June, the Administration said that $703,367 in public funds had been spent to equip the Western White House-plus another $1,180,522 for the President's home in Key Biscayne, Fla. Last week it made a new public accounting and set the total at nearly $10 million...
...Council that certain people might have ulterior financial interests in bringing cable television to Cambridge, the question of privacy and surveillance via two-way cable hook-ups has been raised by People Against National Identification Cards (PANIC). As a result, the city fought a proposed MIT experiment to equip the Washington Elms housing project with cable TV and declared an 18-month moratorium on such franchises...
...every package and piece of baggage that is hand-carried onto a commercial plane. Heretofore, this task has been done by ticket agents or other airline employees at big airports and has delayed some flights by as much as 45 minutes. Now the lines will be additionally required to equip all boarding areas with electronic metal-detecting devices that will check the passengers themselves. Trans World Airlines, Pan Am and Delta are using new X-ray-type machines that allow technicians to see exactly what is inside a suitcase without opening it. Suitcases are placed inside the machines...