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...complete blueprints, which are scheduled be released next week, will also outline major extensions of subway and commuter rail lines as well as bus and car pool lanes...
...demonstration go on, Yeltsin and his supporters in the Moscow city government could have pointed to the tiny turnout as proof that the great majority of Russians prefer democratic reform to any brand of authoritarianism, communist or fascist. Instead, the disparate opposition forces won a fresh reason to rail against the government. Wrote Eduard Limonov, in the conservative Sovetskaya Rossiya newspaper: "The first beatings are usually followed by the first bullets and the first murders...
...water flows at the dams. Farmers, manufacturers and utilities are worrying about the consequences. In Lewiston, a port 748 km (465 miles) inland on the Snake River in Idaho, port director Ron McMurray says barge traffic may be halted several months a year, forcing farmers to transport cargo by rail or truck. Ron Reimann, who farms 1,295 hectares (3,200 acres) in Pasco, Wash., estimates that it will cost him $1.3 % million if he has to move his irrigation pumps to accommodate lower water levels. In addition, electricity rates are expected to rise as much as 8% because...
...collegestudents vamp on Harkin's themes: when you buy acar, what are you paying for, labor or CEOs?...this country has almost no tariffs right now,basically none... we're not producing anything inthis country... national moratorium onforeclosures... economic conversion...compassionate government... manufacturing base...universal health care... high-speed rail...
Americans tend to react to the Japanese inroads with a surly, complex resentment, or with chauvinism, anger, chagrin, even backhanded admiration. The Los Angeles County transportation commission canceled the contracts it had granted to Sumitomo for a light-rail transit system and decided to try to get into the business of manufacturing railcars itself. Cars became the center of "Buy America" campaigns. In Warren, Ohio, an ear surgeon, Dr. William Lippy, offered the 75 employees of his clinic $400 cash if they bought a new American car. Lippy became a favorite of morning television talk shows when he invited other...