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...rebounding as a result of rising gasoline prices and Amtrak's new Northeast-corridor service, the Interior Department agreed to turn the building over to the Department of Transportation, which wanted to turn it back into a train station. By then, however, inertia had set in. Bills to transfer control died in committee. Finally last year, Congress passed a bill, as Moynihan put it, "to return the building to its use before Congress began fumbling with it." It authorizes the Government to spend $69 million more to undo what it did. Another $9 million has been approved for roof...
...Evans, a transfer student from Columbia, ha plainly goiter plenty of kicks en route to establishing himself as the most unusual student government participant in recent years. Who else could say "I'd like to be a rating orator in the mold of a Martin Luther King or an Adolph Hitler?" And it is equally clear that his antics have caused a good deal of consternation among student government traditionalists, more accustomed to debating Robert's Rule of order than the merits of "King Trivia...
...from Miller: "It only took two seconds to transfer the money to London. Now all we need are three things: the signed escrow agreement, the certification of deposit from our account to the Algerian account, and for Algiers to notify Washington and Tehran that all agreements have been fulfilled...
...left the Oval Office reluctantly, after making arrangements to be kept informed about every development, and walked rapidly over to my private quarters in the White House. As I put on my rented formal suit, I was able to transfer my thoughts for the first time to the Washington ceremonies now about to begin. They seemed like a dream; reality was in the Oval Office, Algiers and Iran...
Each year some 10,000, or 5% of the nation's electrical engineers, transfer out of their field, many because they feel useless or technologically obsolescent. Yet by 1985 the U.S. is expected to suffer from a shortage of more than 100,000 engineers. This gap cannot be closed by increasing the output of engineering schools, which are at their production limit. As Ray Stata, president of Analog Devices, told the M.I.T. symposium, "Our only viable strategy for coping is for industry to increase the productivity, retention and competence of those engineers already engaged in the profession...