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Opponents maintain the amendment offers legislators too much opportunity to railroad a bill through the houses, attach an emergency preamble and have it go into effect immediately without the customary 90-day wait. That kind of action, they say, would undermine the voters' right to referendum and the courts' right to review...
...that have been designed to ease the pain of joblessness, spur retraining and supplement the assistance provided under existing unemployment programs has swelled from nine to 18. There are now, for example, special programs for out-of-work West Coast lumber mill hands, ones to locate jobs for unemployed railroad workers, and a new program to find employment for airline employees who are let go as a result of deregulation. The mishmash of programs clearly needs a thorough re-examination rather than just some further tinkering...
...Wolfe writes, "the most exquisite form of torture imaginable would have been to have found yourself locked inside a Seaboard railroad roomette just north of Jacksonville on the Miami-to-New York run with the radiator sizzling in an amok, red-mad psychotic overboil and George McGovern sitting beside you, telling you his philosophy of government." Boom! "In the late seventies there was the bottle of Perrier, a French soda water. The fashionable American expense-account lunch drink became lighter and lighter, but not cheaper and cheaper. The soda water sold for $2.50 a glass in Manhattan restaurants...
HANOVER, N.H.--The giant tower of railroad ties ignited slowly, but the flames expanded then swirled until the center of this campus glowed in the light of a 200-foot cylinder of fire...
...presiding supervisor of Hempstead Town, D'Amato is chief of a huge patronage organization, To get a job as a lifeguard, a garbage collector, or a Long Island Railroad conductor in Nassau County one must be a registered Republican. A decade ago D'Amato was implicated in a scheme that required county employees to kickback 1 per cent of their salaries for the party. And just yesterday the Village Voice revealed that for years D'Amato's father had a no-show job on the Hampstead Town payroll...