Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...main legislative item at the meeting was the creation of the four new committees. As proposed in the Fainsod Report and approved by the Faculty, they...
...CITIES AND ENVIRONMENT. Congress failed even to take up the President's anti-crime package, or his innovative plans to share federal revenues with the states and to shift the main burden of welfare payments to the Federal Government. The Congress did, however, almost double the Administration's requested increase in money for food stamps. Although not recommended by the President, it created a Council on Environmental Quality as a White House office. It also appropriated almost $600 million more than the Administration wanted to combat water pollution...
...words is a mistake." In his rigorously faithful setting of Maeterlinck's moonstruck play about love and fratricide, Debussy ruled out full-blown arias as well as vocal ensembles, and restricted the singers largely to declamation, meanwhile raising the orchestra to a new importance as the main commentator on the action...
...Limited. To speed the way, the railroads have adopted a number of plans calculated to make the going miserable. Penn Central has walled up the main entrance of its Detroit terminal and removed the baggage lockers inside. A sign in a Union Pacific train advises passengers that "on days livestock is to be carried, Train 82 runs about a half-hour later than the schedule shows." The Southern Pacific, the nation's most profitable railroad, has employed classic tactics to depopularize the once elegant Los Angeles-to-New Orleans Sunset. Phone calls for departure and arrival information go unanswered...
...present, the passenger's future is in the hands of Congress, which is considering a dozen bills to improve railroad service. The main features of most of them are contained in a bill being prepared by the Senate Commerce Committee. At a cost of up to $445 million over the next four years, the bill would provide funds for new equipment, subsidies for money-losing operations, and an office within the Department of Transportation to manage basic passenger services-in effect, a quasi-nationalized system. The plan is anathema to most proponents of private enterprise; yet, as even...