Word: mx
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...shock wave through the capital. For most of the past 40 years this city has been used to new Presidents' promising dramatic departures but actually only reassembling existing ideas and programs under new slogans. Already Reagan has been urged by his advance scouts to reconsider the proposed new MX missile system and seek a cheaper and more imaginative modification of our current missile arsenal. It has been recommended that upon taking office tie declare a national economic emergency; that he seek congressional authority for a series of radical steps to bolster the private sector...
Washington even sets the price of lift tickets in some ski areas in Colorado. And it is Washington that now plans to install in Utah and Nevada the $33.8 billion MX missile system, the biggest public works project in history...
...plan ahead for anticipated growth complain that no one in the Federal Government will listen to them. Says Utah Governor Scott Matheson: "We're growing so fast now that we can see almost unmitigable problems -even without the development of synthetic fuels or the huge MX program. We estimate that in the next ten years the state will increase in population from 1.4 million to 2 million. That's explosive. Now all these things are supported by the Federal Government, but the Feds never sit down and tell you that all these things have to be planned together...
...when apocalyptic thinking is the norm, Ratliff is no exception. "We are living at a precipice," he insists, and letter after letter rails against the MX missile, the concept of limited nuclear war, or draft registration. But though the days are dark Ratliff says men must steel themselves to action. "Whether we can avert tragedy I don't know. I do know we ought to be moving in the right direction. Where's there's life there's hope, and anyway humans have never had a guarantee on tomorrow," he says. And, he adds, "If we go down, then...
...City's subway into the safest, fastest, cleanest and most modern in the world. Labor, management, skills, materials, necessity, money from Washington's printing presses are right now available. This giant project triggers rebuilding urban America. Vastly increases employment as well as revenues for government and private industry. The MX missile for 1980-90 at 50 to 100 billion dollars destroys Nevada-Utah and threatens human survival. Rebuilding NYC subway blesses humankind. Henry Ratliff...