Word: transition
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan's view that "best" is sure to seem nowhere near good enough. The resolution provides $11 billion less for the Pentagon than the White House wants, and it merely reduces some programs the President wants to eliminate, such as mass-transit subsidies and revenue-sharing grants to cities (revenue sharing would expire in two years under the Senate plan). So Reagan will have ample opportunity in future congressional battles to display the uncompromising spirit he showed last week. There seems little doubt that he will...
Donovan and nine co-defendants have been charged with grand larceny as well as 125 counts of falsifying business documents and eleven counts of filing phony papers with government agencies. The men allegedly defrauded the New York City Transit Authority on a $186 million subway contract awarded in 1978 to the Schiavone Construction Co. of Secaucus, N.J. At the time, Donovan was executive vice president and one of two controlling stockholders in the firm. Donovan tried to have his indictment dismissed, partly on the ground that it was politically motivated. The head prosecutor, Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola...
...prosecution charges that Schiavone, to prove it was giving its fair share of work to minority contractors, reported falsely to the New York City Transit Authority that Jo-Pel had paid more than $90,000 a month to rent tunnel- digging equipment. Schiavone had actually allowed Jo-Pel to use the equipment free of charge. In all, Schiavone collected some $12 million for work it claimed Jo-Pel had done. According to Prosecutor Merola, however, Jo- Pel's effort was worth only about $4 million...
What's in a name? Apparently not much, if you ask officials at the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority who recently changed the name of the Kendall Square subway station to Cambridge Center/MIT without asking anyone...
...same time, the committee rejected many of the President's demands for spending cuts, opting instead for freezes. It took essentially that approach on farm-price supports, student loans, mass-transit subsidies, Medicare and Medicaid, among other programs. But the committee deadlocked on Social Security, schizophrenically voting down both a proposal to eliminate cost of living adjustments in benefits and a proposal to leave the COLAs alone...