Word: unsnarl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major airports will be served by standardized electronic wizardry that will make landings in the thickest fog as safe and happy as the touchdown of a Piper Cub on a balmy April day. The new device, known as the Microwave Landing System (MLS) is also expected to help unsnarl the aerial traffic that often clogs the skies above major airports today...
Helping the nation's cities to unsnarl their traffic jams might seem a top-priority issue for the Federal Government. But the most practical way to do so-partly subsidizing urban mass-transit systems-raises fierce controversy. Members of Congress from suburban and rural areas argue that cities should pay for their own transit. President Nixon also opposes the subsidies, saying they would strain the federal budget...
...most of the blame for the jam on the Federal Government for overloading the rails with the Russian grain. They think new laws are needed to modernize and better coordinate the interlocking parts of the transportation system. But the remedies, even if adopted, will come far too late to unsnarl the present...
Zero Tolerance. Two recent decisions by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia promise to unsnarl these problems. The court ordered Secretary of Agriculture Clifford M. Hardin to stop all interstate shipments of DDT within 30 days or else show the court why such an absolute ban would be a mistake. In the other case, the court ordered Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert H. Finch to publish in the Federal Register a proposal to establish "zero tolerance" levels for DDT residues in foods for humans. In effect, this will force manufacturers to prove to HEW that...