Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...toward votes four measures ranging from the probably worthwhile to the potentially disastrous. Ranked by their chances of becoming law, they are: 1) A bill to raise the federal gasoline tax 5?per gal. effective April 1 and use the estimated $5.5 billion a year in new revenues to repair highways, bridges and mass-transit systems. It passed the House last week by a resounding 262 to 143, but hit an unexpected snag in the Senate when three of that chamber's controlling Republicans began a filibuster. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker predicts the bill will pass...
Meantime, Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis' idea to hike gas taxes 5? per gal. to repair highways and bridges was making progress in Congress. And Reagan threw his weight behind the notion, hatched in the Department of Agriculture, of using surplus grain as a payment for not producing new grain...
...cure for Mexico's economic ills will involve still greater hardship. To repair its international financial position, Mexico has promised the IMF to slash its towering budget deficit from 16.5% of gross domestic product this year to 8.5% in 1983 and 3.5% in 1985. That will involve a painful pruning of personnel from the country's more than 1,000 state and quasi-government organizations, plus a sharp curtailment of Mexico's dense fabric of price subsidies. De la Madrid's announcement that he was lifting price controls on 2,700 items is only the beginning...
...strong commitments that Sadat made to the U.S., to Israel and to the Camp David accords. Yet he must also register his disapproval of Israel's war in Lebanon and of what he sees as Washington's inability to control the Israelis, even as he strives to repair the ties with the Arab world that Sadat sacrificed in the cause of peace...
...user fee," calculated to make those who drive on federally financed highways pay for their upkeep. The contention has some merit, but its real point was to avoid that awful word tax. Stockman countered by arguing that whatever it might be called, using a federal impost to finance repair work done by states and localities would violate Reagan's New Federalism concept. The President, however, recalled that as Governor of California he had agreed to an increase in the state gasoline tax that was rebated to localities. Said Reagan: "It didn't violate my basic principles then. Why should...