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...museum has its own endowment which helps pay for building upkeep and overhead and also receives some aid from the faculty, which pays the professors salaries and for the library, he adds...
...Federal Government would build the units, and local authorities would pay for their operation and upkeep, mostly through rents. But rising energy costs, inflation, aging buildings and legal limits on the percentage of income that tenants can be required to pay have gradually forced Washington to underwrite more than half of the operating budgets in many cities. Operating subsidies for the nation's 1.2 million public housing units have ballooned from $28 million in 1970 to $1.2 billion in 1983. Overall in fiscal 1984 HUD will spend a whopping $4.4 billion on building, maintaining and repairing public housing...
...plenty of company. Strung out over a 240-mile stretch of the upper Mississippi, embedded in the ice like pieces of an unfinished mosaic, are 49 towboats pushing more than 600 barges with cargoes worth an estimated $150 million. Each boat carries a skeleton crew that is responsible for upkeep and for starting the engines once a day to prevent ice buildups on the propeller and the hull. "We're just baby sitting a boat," says Leo Hallinan, 40, a deckhand aboard the Ann Blessey. "If the TV ever went out, they'd have to carry...
...problem of red tape could be solved in the short run by assigning custodial workers to the Hoses, and in the long term by making each House responsible for its own upkeep, Dowling adds...
While no one is suggesting that the House become so loosely tied to the University, most masters agree that they could use their loyal group of House alumni. "Why not take advantage of the alumni [for financing the upkeep of the Houses]?" Gomes asks, adding, "Part of the reason for the recent renovations is past neglect...