Word: transitions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is an outside chance that drivers may have to dawdle along at 55 despite Congress's green light for the 10-m.p.h. increase. The new speed limit is a rider to an $88 billion authorization bill for highways and mass transit that may be vetoed by the President. Ronald Reagan, who is all for upping the speed limit, feels that the bill is on the expensive side. Congressmen, however, want those federal dollars for their states, and will gun their engines to fight a veto...
...Last week Martin Ardbo, the managing director of Bofors weapons division, abruptly resigned. This week the Swedes are expected to publish the results of a customs investigation that, it is believed, will show that an intricate network of European smugglers has used almost all the North European countries as transit points for weapons trade with Iran...
Promoting mass transit in Dallas, where the car is king, is something like selling straw hats in winter. This month, though, the city's bus service began testing a ploy to lure new customers. Riders drop off their dirty laundry in the morning at a bus stop heavily used by suburban commuters. There, vans operated by Kwik Wash, a local laundry service, pick up the bundles. In the afternoon at the same stop, riders get the clothes back, clean and neatly folded. Cost: 85 cents per lb. If the program is a success, film processing and shoe repair...
While Young wants to spend Valentine's Day in transit, some people would rather spend the entire day in a specific place...
...send a trillion dollar budget to Capitol Hill. His proposals call for the deficit to be cut to the $108 billion Gramm-Rudman target through a combination of $42 billion in spending reductions and revenue increases. Some $20 billion of that would be trimmed from domestic programs, including mass-transit aid, housing assistance and farm subsidies. Social Security, as usual, remains untouchable...