Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dingman added that the total of $1500 in grants--which Currier Chairman Alan A. Khazei '83 said will be spent for the purchase or repair of pool tables, ping pong tables, and exercise equipment--will be financed from Q-RAC's unused maintenance and staffing budgets. Each House had requested a stipend...
...closed this fall because of heavy damage to racquetball and squash courts caused by water leakage. President Horner opened the main gym on Dec. 2, but the damaged courts remain under repair...
Just how the first $5.5 billion will be targeted has already been decided. Mass transit will get $1.1 billion, partly on the sound theory that keeping more people off roads and streets helps reduce road-repair costs. States will get $1.7 billion for major resurfacing, repair and improvement of existing interstate highways. An addition al $800 million will be used to build the last 1,575 miles of the interstate system, now scheduled for completion...
...with what engineers stuffily call its infrastructure is overblown. They point out that road contractors and other construction firms have put a great deal of money behind a lobbying campaign to focus attention on the problem. It is also true that some estimates of the total bill for such repair work seem plucked from the air. Pat Choate, co-author of America in Ruins, for example, puts the cost at $3 trillion...
After decades of a "build and forget" policy abetted by irresponsible officials who were only too happy to hand on problems like maintenance and repair to their successors, the nation has no choice but to reorder its priorities and search for long-term funding. As Sociologist Etzioni has declared: "America had a big party that lasted 30 years. We overconsumed and underinvested, and now we have to pay the piper." - By Ed Magnuson...