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...seems ready to do more. The end of 170 years of British use of the island would mean eliminating 22,000 full-or part-time jobs and losing a $54 million annual contribution to the economy. Gaddafi recently dispatched a plane to Malta to fly Mintoff to Tripoli. The upshot of their discussions was believed to be an agreement that Libya will cover such losses...
...further, overriding the Bar Association and bringing charges under its own authority. The case, decided the justices, would be moved to another geographical department of the Appellate Division, satisfying the technical requirement that the First Department, which lodged the complaint, would not also act as judge. The upshot is that justices of one department of the Appellate Division will be the complainant, while their colleagues from another department serve as judge and jury. Erdmann, of course, had spoken of all Appellate Division justices, not just those of the First Department...
...commuting-and make up for it by building new, nonpolluting rapid transit systems. Unfortunately, the Government is unlikely to share the cities' staggering costs. Nixon's budget request for the Urban Mass Transportation Administration was $400 million, $200 million less than the amount authorized by Congress. The upshot is that few Ruckelshaus standards will be met on time. Yet some of them will be, which is the whole point of the exercise. Even if only in theory, the U.S. can now draw a clear line between clean air and dirty...
...pleasure boats. They contribute less than .07% of all sewage spilled into U.S. waterways, a drop in the slop bucket compared with the daily deluge from archaic municipal "treatment" plants, not to mention the wastes from waterside factories. Unorganized boatowners, though, seem an easier target than major polluters. The upshot is a flood of laws and regulations that boatmen consider arbitrary, capricious, discriminatory and unenforceable...
...assessors were caught taking bribes from tax consultants to lower their appraisals on property owned by national companies. In Chicago last fall. Cook County Assessor P.J. Cullerton and several subordinates were accused of giving assessment breaks to the politically friendly owners of several industrial and commercial properties. The upshot was a $9,000,000 rise in the valuations for eleven buildings, which will yield the city and county $1,000,000 a year more in taxes unless the owners can persuade the courts to overturn the increase. The nation needs fewer but better-trained chief assessors-certainly no more than...