Word: unclogged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must have a single spokesperson for the education community, they say--even if he/she is just a convenient scapegoat when things go wrong. If one is to believe its supporters, a department is the miracle cure for what ails the federal education bureaucracy, the wonder drug that will unclog the arteries and get the circulation flowing again...
After decades of neglect, Athens is at last getting some attention. In March a committee of representatives from all major public service ministries met to discuss a plan to unclog the city, make it livable and clean up its environment. A save-Athens ministry, which will soon begin functioning, will propose heavy taxes to discourage in-migration, and a minimum of $5 billion in public spending for Athens alone. The ministry will also have an extensive investment program for rural areas to encourage residents to stay put. A master plan that will move many government offices to the city...
...only five acquittals in nine years. "I've got the best prosecution record in the state of Texas," Cooksey modestly admits. But the taxpayers may be getting shortchanged overall. Since 1971, Cooksey's office has cadged five separate LEAA grants, totaling $245,801, to speed prosecutions and unclog court congestion. Result: while there were 799 case dispositions and a backlog of 1,149 cases in 1970, by 1976 there were only 587 dispositions and a whopping 2,400 cases pending. Overall, the LEAA cornucopia has pumped more than $2 million into the Texarkana, Texas, criminal justice system...
...border customs checkpoints and valuable military supplies are rusting away out on the sand or in warehouses while authorities try to process them. "It resembles a chaotic flea market," says one U.S. Pentagon officer. An aide to Defense Secretary James Schlesinger has been sent to Tehran to help unclog the backlog in order to make way for still more supplies, including the first of 80 F-14 Tomcats, that...
...quiet STOL (for short take-off and landing) plane would make better use of short runways that either now exist (the U.S. has 12,000 airports, more than half of which are small, unlit fields) or could be built in strategic urban locations. In theory, the STOL planes would unclog major airports because two-thirds of all flights there are short hops, less than 500 miles. Only experimental STOL models are now flying, but designers are confident that these planes will be a reality within a decade...