Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into the connector three miles north of downtown. By the mid-1970s, the four-lane highway was jammed with more than 100,000 autos a day, twice its capacity. Atlanta responded in 1978 with a $1.4 billion plan for "freeing the freeways." Computer models showed traffic engineers where to expand the system and where to streamline it by eliminating entrances and exits. Today the highway features as many as ten lanes, includes eight rebuilt interchanges and can handle four times as much volume as the old roadway. Although work on the southern portion of the highway is still under...
...educational proposals or stated in detail how he would pay for them. Some of his ideas, moreover, simply do not stand up. Few businesses are likely to permit capable workers to leave their jobs in mid-career for three- to five-year teaching sabbaticals. Dukakis' plan to expand the so-called Boston Compacts and Genesis Programs -- in which wealthy individuals and businesses seek to motivate high schoolers by promising a job or college scholarship to each graduate -- is doomed to failure in areas lacking either a surplus of good jobs or a willing philanthropist. His notion of asking investment bankers...
...Expand Head Start and Chapter 1 programs. For the past two decades, the Federal Government has supported Head Start programs, which provide educational and medical services for disadvantaged preschoolers, and Chapter 1, which offers remedial help for those in higher grades. Both have repeatedly been shown to be beneficial and cost-effective. An annual $500 investment in Head Start, for example, makes it less likely that a child will repeat a grade -- at an average cost to the community of $3,000. Currently, only one out of five eligible children is enrolled in Head Start, and Chapter 1 programs reach...
...that the American Public Transit Association ranks as the safest in the U.S. The buses are on schedule 98% of the time and are so dependable that they need repair only once every 11,000 miles, compared with the U.S. average of 4,000 miles. The city plans to expand its system of express lanes for buses, vans and car pools. Houston will have 70 miles of such lanes, more than any other U.S. city, when they are completed...
Basic provisions of the bill would provide payments to drought-stricken farmers equal to 65 percent of their lost earnings above 35 percent of anticipated harvest. They also would expand and streamline government feed programs for dairy and livestock producers...