Word: watered
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Congress allotted the money to the city as part of the National Clean Water Act, which passed over President Reagan's two-time veto last week. The money will be distributed next October and is portion of $2.4 billion slated for water clean-up throughout the country...
Massachusetts Water Resource Authority (MWRA) Chief Spokesman Paul Di Natale viewed the passage of the Clean Water Act as a welcome change. "Previous Republican administrations have sponsored environment protection. Unfortunately Reagan's didn't. It's sad [Congress] had to override him, but we're glad we're getting the money," he said. The Senate vote was 86--14 in favor...
Just before airtime, Wright inserted a phrase responding to Reagan's exhortation "Let's go to work." Congress has already been at work for three weeks, Wright replied, and in that time has, over Administration objections, advanced legislation for cleaner water, completion of the interstate highway system and shelter for the homeless. None of the measures were "budget busters," said Wright, though three days later Reagan vetoed the water bill for budgetary reasons...
That prediction seemed borne out later in the week when leaders of the 100th Congress called at the White House to discuss domestic policy. Reagan opened by pledging to veto as a "budget buster" a $20 billion clean-water bill that passed both houses of Congress by overwhelming margins. House Speaker Jim Wright and Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd told the President they thought they had the votes to override; on Friday, Reagan vetoed the bill anyway. Byrd pressed Reagan to call a kind of summit meeting with congressional leaders to discuss strategies for reducing the budget deficit. "I didn...
...about $14,000. Outside the capital, Liz Hughes, 25, shares a hut in the crumbling village of Mayo with two other Irish nurses. The threesome, who each receive $60 a month from Goal, an Irish relief group, has been helping to clean up the disease-ridden village's water supply and typically sees some 100 patients...