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...expected to generate revenues of $27.5 billion over the next five years. Of that amount, 20% will be given out in discretionary block grants to states and cities to update and repair urban mass-transit systems. The remaining 80%, earmarked for highways, would be parceled out to Governors based on state population and miles of interstate highway. The program requires states to match 10% of the Federal Government's mass-transit grant and 20% of its highway contribution. Said the President in his regular Saturday radio address: "We simply cannot allow this magnificent system to deteriorate beyond repair...
Neither do the Democrats, who plan to introduce their own job-creation legislation during the three-week lame-duck session. O'Neill anticipates bringing up a bill to construct more public housing and subsidize mortgages, and a proposal to plump up public repair and maintenance jobs. But given the President's determination to steer clear of conventional remedies for unemployment, even O'Neill's aides refer to the bills as "veto bait...
...ongoing repair work has cut off access from the main gym floor to Q-RAC's bathrooms, a condition normally not allowed in athletic facilities under Cambridge law. But Horner said this week that city officials suspended the health regulation for Radcliffle on the condition that no competitive events be held at the Q-RAC until repairs are completed...
...Reardon and several University planners launched a project last fall to repair the disintegrating structure. The University allocated $7 million for a complete renovation. Steel support beams were to be replaced. Acres of concrete slabs were to replace the weather-worn grandstands. A new press box was to be built...
...Kennedy's preferred site had been cleared by MBTA officials who spent some $53 million to transplant their repair and storage yards from where they had stood for about 50 years. But just when it appeared construction would soon be beginning, a group of Cambridge residents, worried that the library would bring more tourists, scholars, and cars into a already-congested Harvard Square, launched an all-out battle against the building...