Word: garfield
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...MORE THAN 100 years now, They've been tryping to puch this one through Congress. Way back in 1876, when he was just a representive from Ohio, James A. Garfield introduced a bill to create a separate Department of Education. Although the proposal has changed a bit over the last few decades, the message is still the same: Educational issues are being buried in the federal bureaucracy, and if it's to be taken seriously, education must be given its own special home on the banks of the Potomac...
...March 1867, James A. Garfield, then a Congressman from Ohio, introduced a bill in the House of Representatives to create a United States Department of Education--an organ without Cabinet-level status. For the next 110 years and more, proposals to establish such a department have burst upon Congress sporadically. From 1908 to 1951, more than 50 pieces of legislation seeking to establish an education department floated through the Russell, Longworth and Rayburn Congressional office buildings; however, none survived beyond the committee stage. Legislation introduced in the 95th Congress met a similar fate. Meanwhile, education has become an orphan child...
...Perini Corporation, the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's (MBTA) contractor for tunnel construction, plans to dig an 80 by 40-ft, hole, known as a "haul shaft," at the corner of Garfield St. and Mass. Ave. Cambridge residents have turned long-standing complaints about this shaft into affidavits for the suit as part of its new focus...
...suit charges the MBTA with substantially deviating from the original Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), which had not considered the removal of 90 per cent of the dirt for the Harvard-Porter Square tunnel from the hole on Garfield St. The suit demands that the MBTA prepare a new report...
Unfortunately for the construction firm hired by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA)--which is attempting to dig such a hole at the corner of Mass. Ave and Garfield St.--building a haul shaft is a very dirty and noisy operation...