Word: repairable
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Nevertheless, the public is coming to realize that any more delays will increase the cost of repair later, and even lead to unnecessary loss of life. Federal officials estimate, for example, that spending an added $4.3 billion on the roads and bridges most in need of repair could save 17,200 lives and prevent 480,000 personal injuries over the next 15 years...
Soaring costs of labor and materials have aggravated the road problems. In Georgia, where the state is able to repair and properly maintain only 10% of its 18,000 miles of highways each year, maintenance costs have risen 42% since 1977. Just to put a 1½-in. layer of new asphalt on 2,000 miles of highway costs $60 million. Minnesota Transportation Commissioner Richard P. Braun contends that at present spending levels, the state will not be able to rebuild its 12,000 miles of trunk highways until the year 2354, at least three centuries too late...
Sewers. The Environmental Protection Agency maintains that the nation must spend $119 billion by the year 2000 to handle safely a sewage problem aggravated by population growth and shifts. Even without providing for an anticipated 23% rise in population, $91.1 billion is needed for sewer repair and construction, as well as for upgrading sewage-treatment facilities. According to the EPA, it will cost $37.2 billion to separate the combined sewer and street-drainage systems that were installed by some 80 cities in the early years of this century...
...cared for him because he cared so deeply for all of us" Jon Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg professor of Economics Emeritus, said in his memorial remarks. "As a community, we will never quite repair or replace our loss...
Supporters of the bill that tied up the Senate for 13 days said that the legislation, which will raise the federal gasoline tax from 4? to 9? starting April 1, would create 320,000 new jobs, extend unemployment benefits, help repair the nation's decaying highway and transit systems and cost the average motorist only $30 annually. It would also increase the maximum user fee for heavy trucks from $210 to $1,900 a year and permit the use of long double-trailer trucks on many state roads...