Word: interior
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...offered it to the Federal Government. The National Park Service had been hankering for a place to tell tourists about the delights of the capital. It seemed a perfect match. In 1968 Congress enthusiastically passed the National Visitor Center Facilities Act. The bill called for the Department of the Interior to lease the building for $3.5 million annually for 25 years, after which the Government would own it. The owners of the terminal, the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio railroads, would spend $19 million for a parking garage, replacement terminal and conversion of the station into a visitor center...
...that time, they had sealed off all roads to the flaming interior to all but emergency crews. But I hitched a ride with a compassionate county worker and came home. Our house was still standing, a fortified bastion...
Hartke blasts Lujan for missing 1,000 congressional votes over the years, earning a substantial part of his $134,000 income last year from a family insurance firm, supporting Reagan's economic policies and defending Interior Secretary James Watt. Says Hartke: "Lujan represents the big corporations and the rich. He's forgotten about the people...
Significantly, Kohl has agreed to appoint Friedrich Zimmermann, 57, his Interior Minister. Zimmermann is a conservative long known for his anti-immigration and anti environmentalist views. His name was put forward for the job by Franz Josef Strauss, the abrasive head of the Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister party to the C.D.U.* The Interior Minister's appointment has already raised protests from a wide range of left-wing groups, including the Greens, the growing third force in West German politics, who recently won 8% of the vote in local elections in the industrial state of Hesse. A loose...
...sense, Cats needs every penny of that, which includes the sums forthcoming from 330 theater parties that have signed up for special blocks of seats. The show cost a princely $4 million or so to mount. It cost $2.5 million to strip-mine the interior and stage of the Winter Garden Theater and construct a cats' Valhalla of a nocturnal dump. Cost of restoration when Cats eventually vacates: an additional $1.5 million...