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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this is a result of the fact that for many years we have been living in an imaginary world and are deceiving each other, and we cannot bring ourselves to face the truth at a time when other countries do not live in the clouds but build their economies in the real world and therefore are getting ahead of us still more and more. There is not a single friendly gathering at which this would not be discussed. After all, everyone knows that overlong collective self-deception leads inevitably to catastrophe. In all of Russia there is talk about...
...Nixon's message, under preparation for six months, was clearly knowledgeable. Instead of attacking water pollution in individual localities, for example, the President considered whole river-basin systems. He pledged $4 billion in federal funds over the next five years to help municipalities build 1,500 new sewage-treatment plants and improve 2,500 existing facilities. The towns and cities will have to raise another $6 billion in matching funds, but they can expect assistance from a new Environmental Financing Authority. If Congress approves, this agency will issue its own federal bonds to buy the local bonds that cities...
...flaw: the federal agency probably could not override state, regional or local bonding statutes. In consequence, any municipality that reached the legal limit of its bonding capacity might still be unable to build even desperately needed treatment plants...
Dual-Purpose Engines. For Detroit's automakers, the ideal solution would be for oil companies to produce unleaded gasoline at present high-octane ratings. That would require the oilmen to build many new refineries, which would cost their industry about $4 billion, according to the American Petroleum Institute. That cost would be passed on to the consumer in higher gas prices-perhaps 20 per gal.-atop the extra cost of pollution-control devices on the car. By contrast, unleaded gasoline at lower octane ratings can be produced with relatively little changeover or cost by the oil companies, and with...
...Corporation announced that Harvard would build 1100 low and moderate income housing units in the medical area to alleviate the housing shortage caused by construction of the AHC. But contracting an architect and developer, producing federal subsidies for the low-income portion of the housing, S. Gruson, assistant to the President for Community Affairs, first appeared before the committee on May 12, the plans had already been made. Neither was the AHC site a subject of the committee's deliberations. Despite numerous objections by committee members, and a petition signed by over two-thirds of all first-year medical students...