Word: transiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gasoline? Hogwash. What we need is a $1-per-gal. tax, applied at the retail level only, with the resulting revenues directed exclusively toward development of mass transit and new energy sources...
...alleviate upward pressure on petroleum prices in world-markets, which in turn compels developing countries to chose nuclear power. Ideally such an American program should include the decontrol of oil and gas prices (accompanied by tax relief for the hardest-hit consumers), the development of mass transit, and the adoption of solar power and conservation measures, which a group at the Business School recently said could cut the nation's energy consumption by 30 to 40 per cent...
...treaty remains on the Senate floor as Southern senators filibuster. Sam Nunn of Georgia declares that his colleagues' latest demand was to exchange SALT II for the death of Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev. Meanwhile, facing growing criticism on the left, Kennedy announces that he will solve the urban mass transit crunch by placing the MX subterranean missile system on city subways...