Word: projects
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Like any other big construction project, the subway extension promises to be a big mess--"five miserable years of it," as officials in the Harvard Planning Office predict. But Harvard has its own committee to coordinate plans with the MBTA, and even though most Harvard students won't be riding the RedLine to Alewife, this process will have a big effect on their lives...
Originally, back in 1972, it was to cost a mere $47.9 million. So far, $85 million has been appropriated (and $16 million spent). Earlier this month, the Senate voted to impose a ceiling of $135 million on the project. But opponents claim that the eventual cost will be $200 million. That would make the Senate's new palace the most expensive Government office building ever created...
...August 4, Freshman Republican John Chafee of Rhode Island called on his Senate colleagues to vote down any further appropriations for the project. Said he: "That Mussolini-style building is an outrage." The Senate defeated his proposal by a vote of 49 to 25. Aside from the attractions of extravagance and the power of bureaucratic inertia, supporters of the building argued that it was required because of the threefold increase in the Senate staff since the last Senate offices were constructed 20 years ago. This increase, they said, was due largely to the Senate's efforts to build...
Last week the House of Representatives suddenly intervened. It was routinely considering an appropriations bill for $7.17 billion in construction projects (including another $54 million for the Senate office building) when an obscure Idaho Republican, Steven D. Symms, took the floor. Defying the ancient Washington tradition known as comity, by which each House takes care of its own business, Symms declared that the time had come to stop the project...
...American with Curial experience says that Italian bishops tell him that a non-Italian Pope is needed to shield the office from entanglement in no-win national disputes. Besides, remarks Jesuit James C. Carter (no kin), president of Loyola University of New Orleans, "the church is going to project a parochial image as long as we give the feeling there is something intrinsically Italian about...