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...which supposedly handle local needs, but everything is still red-taped by Livingston Street. Sometimes it takes a year to get a film from the central library; highly trained teachers languish on cafeteria patrol; requests to fix sagging roofs vanish in a Byzantine fog. For years, the bureaucracy left unspent most of the millions allocated for repairs to the schools (267 of them are 50 years old or more); the backlog of needed repairs is about $75 million. Bureaucracy stifles new teaching methods, which flourish in suburban public schools. Each year, the system drives more parents to the suburbs, feeding...
Theobald's defense of the neglect, which affected almost as many new schools as old ones, was to blame the past. "I do not believe our schools have been properly maintained for 40 years," he said. Obviously, he was right. For years the ponderous bureaucracy had left unspent most of the millions allocated for repairs. Last year, for the first time, the full maintenance budget of $18 million was spent, but the backlog for needed repairs is estimated at $75 million...
...billion defense budget by $662 million.' In recent weeks the Administration has been unfreezing these funds, plus millions more in unspent appropriations from previous years. Box score for new allocations since midyear...
...confidential police solved the department's most embarrassing burglary in recent years , the theft of $26,000 from police department sales. They grabbbed a 35-year-old patrolman previously cited for good police work, who confessed that he had already spent half of it, shamefacedly coughed up an unspent...
...Iran's shores in the gulf. Indiana Standard agreed to pay 75% of profits to Iran, plus a $25 million bonus, and to spend $82 million in exploration and development over the next twelve years. If no oil is found, Indiana will turn over half of the unspent portion of the $82 million to Iran...