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...INSTALLMENT PLAN. Mike Dukakis and Rob Lowe aren't the only ones with bittersweet memories of the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta. For two years, visitors to that city have been paying a 2 cents surcharge on hotel and motel rooms to retire the $15 million tab for hosting the party. Two weeks ago that magic sum was attained, but the surcharge remains; now the goal is to help pay for the $210 million Georgia Dome, a spanking new facility that will host the 1994 Super Bowl...
Wilson should be very wary if she plans to destroy E4A, an organization that has touched the lives of more undergraduates than she realizes. If Radcliffe cannot fund the program for undergraduate public service any longer, she should demand that Harvard pick up the tab...
...when the last major new American airport opened (Dallas-Fort Worth International). To relieve the worsening jet gridlock, the Bush Administration last week proposed a $47 billion five-year plan to provide new aviation facilities, ranging from runways to air-traffic-control computers. And who will pick up the tab? The Federal Aviation Administration wants 85% of the funding to come from new taxes on jet fuel and tickets, which could add $20 to the average domestic fare...
...little silly issuing long reports outlining national problems without coming up with any funds for the solutions. Just two weeks ago, Bush unveiled a glossy 129-page "transportation strategy," a litany of crumbling roads, collapsing bridges, clogged highways and congested airports, with such suggestions as states' picking up the tab and installing tollbooths. The transportation strategy resembled the Bush plans for education, health and the environment -- long on rhetoric, short on dollars...
...soon be revived in other forums. The Senate ethics committee has hired an outside investigator to probe the Keating Five, and the FBI is now in on the investigation. Years may pass before the books are finally closed on this fiasco -- and decades before taxpayers are finished paying the tab...