Word: transitions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This has, unfortunately, not been an effective solution. Most drivers do not carpool, and few are willing to give up the freedom their automobiles provide, even for a day. Such a sacrifice is especially impractical in a city as spread out as Denver, which has no mass rapid transit system and only a small fleet of buses...
There aren't many other alternatives. There is little personal incentive to carpool, and emissions controls can hardly become more stringent. Denver could build a mass rapid transit system, such as a light-rail system, and in fact Denver civic leaders have been talking for years about doing just that. Such a long term investment would likely be less expensive than paying the short term costs of automotive adjustments each year. But the money for such an investment would, of course, have to come from the taxpayers...
Dukakis promises more Government money for education, worker training and the rebuilding of the nation's decaying highways, bridges and transit systems. He calls for a modest $500 million Fund to Rebuild America to provide Government grants for regional economic development. Like Bush, Dukakis glosses over the issue of where the money would come from. He rails against big mergers as anticompetitive, chiding former Attorney General Edwin Meese for not knowing the "difference between antitrust and antifreeze." Yet many trade experts believe that a relaxation of antitrust rules is necessary to allow U.S. companies to combine forces against foreign competition...
...long last, here again is Washington's Union Station. Last week, after a thoughtfully conceived and meticulously executed $160 million restoration, the great national depot -- the bustling terminus for hundreds of thousands of troops sent off to two world wars, the Capitol Hill transit point for eleven Presidents and 11 zillion federal hangers-on -- reopened in something like its original form for the first time in more than a decade. It may be the most breathtaking public interior in the U.S. The vast, spiffed-up old station, packed with 140 new shops and restaurants and movie theaters (replacing, among other...
...previous session. When the President sent the bill back again, Congress easily overrode his veto. The pattern for the final two years of the lame-duck President's term was set: in almost contemptuous defiance of vetoes and threats, Congress enacted expensive measures to improve highways and mass transit, mandate 60- day notification of plant closings and layoffs, provide help to the homeless, bolster elementary and secondary education, and provide protection against catastrophic illness...