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...request to adjust his rehearsal schedule next season. "Once we counted 40,000 castings arranged over a five-year period," says Levine. "It is a jigsaw puzzle beyond belief." He signs letters and heads into the auditorium for an 11 a.m. rehearsal of Wagner's Tannhäuser...
...fact, many states will have difficulty raising the 10% matching money required to qualify for the added federal funds. The states, moreover, have long been far more willing to raise gasoline and other user taxes and fees than has the Federal Government. From 1959 until it was finally hiked this week, the federal gas tax had remained at a meager 4?, and in 1959 dollars had actually decreased to 1.4?. Through all the years of relative prosperity, Presidents and Congress had given federal-highway users virtually a free ride...
When Congress passed the nickel gas tax, designed to save the nation's crumbling highway system, it offered a trade-off to the depressed trucking industry. To be sure, truckers will be paying more not only for fuel but also for user fees, which will balloon from $210 a year to $1,900 (in 1987) for the biggest rigs. But in return they will now be allowed to drive outsize double-trailer trucks on the full length of the interstate highway system and on most of the nation's 230,000 miles of "primary" federal and state roads...
...instance, bad means good. So hacker, a term of contempt in ordinary English, becomes high praise when computer fanatics apply it to themselves. As for anyone who simply employs a computer for some practical purpose and then shuts it off, the hacker derisively refers to him as a "user...
...legislation, which will raise the federal gasoline tax from 4? to 9? starting April 1, would create 320,000 new jobs, extend unemployment benefits, help repair the nation's decaying highway and transit systems and cost the average motorist only $30 annually. It would also increase the maximum user fee for heavy trucks from $210 to $1,900 a year and permit the use of long double-trailer trucks on many state roads...