Word: submitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Arafat plans to submit the proposals for approval to the Palestine National Council, the P.L.O.'s 451-member legislative body, in Algiers during the first week of September. Later he hopes to launch a major diplomatic offensive, speaking to the European Parliament in Strasbourg and, if it can be arranged...
Hughes, a subsidiary of General Motors, contends that its proposal was technically superior but that it lost out because the FAA gave IBM "preferential treatment" that helped the firm submit an unfair lower bid. For one thing, Hughes says, it was not informed by the agency of changes in specifications that favored IBM. The complaint also focuses on the fact that if Hughes had won, it was going to buy many of the necessary computers from IBM. Hughes says that in preparing its bid, it received inflated cost estimates from IBM on equipment needed from the computer maker. According...
...decision on the Los Angeles-Las Vegas line is due in 1989, when a 16- member commission will announce whether Transrapid or a conventional rail builder will receive the contract for the fast track to the gaming tables. No American company is expected to submit a maglev plan. Although the U.S. had a maglev project under way until 1975, federal austerity measures turned off the electromagnets. At least one politician, Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, wants funding for research resumed, but congressional action is not expected before next year...
Never mind a candidate's stand on the issues, Sheehy warns us. After all, she argues, the issues have become increasingly diffuse, "too complicated to submit to clever political slogans." The parties have become virtually interchangeable. The candidates themselves are often big on rhetoric but thin on specifics, preferring instead to stake out popular, non-controversial positions (opposing new taxes and "big government" while supporting patriotism, "good jobs at good wages", and a "war on drugs...
...year's end the panel would submit a list of proposed base closings to Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci, waiving environmental-impact statements. Carlucci must approve or reject the entire list. If Congress votes to save the bases, it could be overruled by a presidential veto. The House bill is similar to a plan passed by the Senate; after the two bills are reconciled, President Reagan is expected to approve. The savings from the shutdowns could be as much as $5 billion annually...