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From the rusting spans of its once proud bridges to the leaking sewers beneath its streets, America is structurally unsound. Highways are crumbling. Avenues are cracking. Trains jump their worn-out tracks. Coal ships languish outside overburdened ports. While the U. S. has the technological prowess to blast a magnificent space shuttle into orbit and land it gently back on earth, it has failed to care properly for its most important public works...
...recommendation to close the Haggerty School was not influenced by Proposition 2 1/2 as a lot of people seem to think." Lannon said, adding that it is financially unsound to keep the school open for only 140 students...
National media exposure might result from the plan, and that in turn would "put the federal government in an interesting position. Either they could convince us that our approach was unsound or witness other cities starting to do this same thing," Wylie said...
...cities like Cambridge could be without schools, without services, without police protection should support Propostion 2 1/2. The rest of us, who would like to be able to call on the fire department when the flames break out, must vote in record numbers to insure the defeat of this unsound measure...
...cities like Cambridge could be without schools, without services, without police protection should support Proposition 2 1/2. The rest of us, who would like to be able to call on the fire department when the flames break out, must vote in record numbers to insure the defeat of this unsound measure...