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...project was to have been built through 169 acres of landfill in the Hudson River, with real estate development and a park on top. It had the support of New York's major politicians, builders and newspapers. But a number of vocal and tenacious critics called the project environmentally unsound and a waste of money. Westway's major roadblock was Federal Judge Thomas Griesa, who twice denied the Army Corps of Engineers a permit to dredge the Hudson. Then the House of Representatives voted this month to kill funding for the project after Congressman Ted Weiss, a Manhattan Democrat, labeled...
...left alone, and that such decisions are better left to elected representatives in Congress. "The political process ensures that laws that unduly burden the states will not be promulgated," he wrote. Judges should hardly ever second-guess that process, Blackmun added, concluding that the 1976 standard had proved "unsound in principle and unworkable in practice...
...nearly intact as possible--is the only way to maintain the current high rate of return on South African investment. Anyone who exposes financial support of the present regime as a means to bring about reform is either easily deceived or willfully deceptive, because it would be financially unsound for any shareholder or corporation to support any course of action intended to give Blacks a meaningful role in economic planning. Profits, not justice, are the primary concern of anyone who has money in South Africa. Apartheid makes good business sense...
Judging from the opening fusillade of press releases, not just the three-martini lunch but the welfare of the republic hangs in the balance. Cutting back tax deductions for entertainment and business meals "is not only bad tax policy but also an unsound way to further the goals of strengthening the economy," intoned the Distilled Spirits Council. Taxing health-and life-insurance fringe benefits "threatens the financial security of millions of working Americans," cried the American Council of Life Insurance. And phasing out accelerated depreciation "would end up lowering the standard of living of the 30 million Americans who rent...
...policies. Bentley, a former chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission, won mainly on a local issue: she claimed that Long had cost the area thousands of jobs by opposing the dredging of Baltimore harbor. Long had argued that the project would involve the disposal of wastes in an environmentally unsound manner...