Word: landings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once discrepancies in two slightly different plans approved by the House and a version passed earlier by the Senate have been ironed out, the program will land on George Bush's desk. The House version would expand Head Start programs for impoverished preschoolers, increase tax credits for poor families with three or more children and require states to set health and safety standards for child-care facilities. Though the President may grit his teeth, he may sign the act into law because it is attached to a budget-reconciliation package that contains a component very dear to his heart...
More is at stake than the survival of a single species. Conservationists fear that if they cannot rally to the rescue of earth's largest land mammal, there is little hope of preventing a multitude of lesser creatures from slipping into extinction. The elephant has become emblematic of the wild and the struggle to preserve...
...clampdown on auto-emission standards that could help transform the American car and the fuel that makes it run. To the discomfort of U.S. automakers, a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee voted unanimously last week to adopt California's strict limits for the 1990s as the law of the land. The measure, which seemed certain to win House approval, would cut existing levels of tail-pipe pollutants as much as 60% from 1994 to 1996 and could phase out much of the remainder by 2006. The Senate is considering an even stronger bill...
...when he took over construction of the trans-Canadian railway, a project that consumed several fortunes, 4 1/2 years of agonizing labor and an untold number of lives. "Since we can't export the scenery," he once said, expressing a frontiersman's thirsty love of the land, "we'll have to import the tourists...
...steel bond linking towns that nobody would otherwise visit with cities that nobody would otherwise leave. During the summer months, 3 out of 4 Canadian passengers are foreigners, seeking perhaps a window on a country. The rest of the travelers are natives, many of whom are seeing the land across the mountains for the first time...