Word: upkeep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the first five weeks of Humboldt's program, five "guests" ran up a tab of $1,000. Officials in both counties say the prisoners are getting a bargain. At the Delaware County Jail, their payments cover only about 20% of their upkeep. Inmates are provided with such extras as stationery and stamps, free haircuts and medical and dental care...
...legislation is likely to gain momentum from the announcement just over a week ago that Congress will have to start worrying about providing for the upkeep of a spacious Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library, which has finally found a home in San Clemente, Calif. An 80,000-sq.-ft. building, including a museum, is planned on a 13-acre, $6.5 million site in the city where Nixon had his Western White House. It will join the libraries and museums of seven other Presidents, built with private funds but staffed and maintained by the Government at a cost of $14.9 million...
...afternoon's harvest is poor. When Sprague surfaces for the last time, there are only 18 baskets on deck. The catch will bring $12 a bushel. But considering the cost of Frisky's fuel and upkeep, it will not make Brown and Sprague wealthy...
...traffic at the 55-m.p.h. maximum speed. The even older 260,000-mile "primary" network of U.S. routes is no better off. According to the Congressional Budget Office, two-thirds of this system is in only poor or fair condition. The CBO places the price of the required annual upkeep at $2.9 billion...
There was no coup, just a White House debate in which both sides used "the Reagan argument" with particular skill. Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis insisted that the 5¢ boost should be considered a "user fee," calculated to make those who drive on federally financed highways pay for their upkeep. The contention has some merit, but its real point was to avoid that awful word tax. Stockman countered by arguing that whatever it might be called, using a federal impost to finance repair work done by states and localities would violate Reagan's New Federalism concept. The President, however, recalled that...