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...special orthopedic facilities established at Kingsley. The cost to refit another school with such facilities may be as much as $200,000. By a 4-to-3 vote, the board persevered in closing Kingsley, a north Evanston school, and then found itself compelled by a sense of equity to scrap a plan to keep a Skokie elementary school open one more year (a portion of Skokie village is in District 65). And so it went...
...cable TV dwarfing anything yet seen. Technology is improving: the cost of an earth station to receive satellite signals is down from $100,000 in 1975 to as little as $12,000 today. Programming is becoming more diverse and imaginative. Indeed, the stage is set for a classic scrap for top industry positions, as befits a business in which technology, creative talent and entrepreneurial leadership open a new market...
Since decontrol appears inevitable, the real scrap will be over Carter's tax proposal. Not only must both the House Ways and Means Committee and the generally pro-industry Senate Finance Committee agree on its details, but after that, the full House and Senate must also vote on the tax. Says a key member of the Senate Energy Committee, Louisiana Democrat J. Bennett Johnston: "There are almost as many views of what is a fair tax and what its proper uses would be as there are members of Congress...
Carter's new energy plan: scrap controls, raise prices and production...
...spokesman for Gov. Edward J. King and Secretary of Transportation Barry Locke denied on Monday reports that the King administration will scrap plans to renovate Boston's Central Artery in favor of constructing a third Boston Harbor tunnel crossing...