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...object of the conference was to promote cooperation between the public and private sectors in maintaining the nation's bridges, highways and sewers--many of which are in dire need of repair, explained Winthrop Knowlton '53. Director of the Center...
...ashes. "Ruck," as his friends call him, is a tall, witty lawyer with broad government experience and a reputation for integrity and administrative astuteness. He is expected to step up enforcement against corporate polluters, clean up toxic-waste dumps, beef up the agency's management and budget, and repair its shattered relationship with Congress. Ruckelshaus was the nearly unanimous choice of top White House officials. Said one Reagan aide: "He more than anybody can pour cold water on the flames...
...fortunate in finding beneficial retraining programs are workers with jobs. U.S. corporations spend about $30 billion annually to train new employees and upgrade the skills of wage earners. Digital Equipment, for example, has 1,800 of its 67,000 employees engaged in worker reeducation. At the moment 450 Digital repair and installation technicians and administrative personnel whose jobs were eliminated by technological change are being tutored for sales...
...government would not necessarily create jobs, but would pay teenagers to help non-profit organizations or to repair and build public facilities, in groups modelled after the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps. Some proponents have suggested that the money would come out of cuts in the military, a tradeoff the forces might be willing to make in return for more and higher qualified 18-year-olds...
Turk said the price differences for the roof repair demonstrate that the University is determined to renovate the building completely, regardless of cost or the effect on the market...