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Nevertheless, the public is coming to realize that any more delays will increase the cost of repair later, and even lead to unnecessary loss of life. Federal officials estimate, for example, that spending an added $4.3 billion on the roads and bridges most in need of repair could save 17,200 lives and prevent 480,000 personal injuries over the next 15 years...
...cared for him because he cared so deeply for all of us" Jon Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg professor of Economics Emeritus, said in his memorial remarks. "As a community, we will never quite repair or replace our loss...
Supporters of the bill that tied up the Senate for 13 days said that the 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...
...cure for Mexico's economic ills will involve still greater hardship. To repair its international financial position, Mexico has promised the IMF to slash its towering budget deficit from 16.5% of gross domestic product this year to 8.5% in 1983 and 3.5% in 1985. That will involve a painful pruning of personnel from the country's more than 1,000 state and quasi-government organizations, plus a sharp curtailment of Mexico's dense fabric of price subsidies. De la Madrid's announcement that he was lifting price controls on 2,700 items is only the beginning...
...strong commitments that Sadat made to the U.S., to Israel and to the Camp David accords. Yet he must also register his disapproval of Israel's war in Lebanon and of what he sees as Washington's inability to control the Israelis, even as he strives to repair the ties with the Arab world that Sadat sacrificed in the cause of peace...