Carbondale library bond would expand to 100000 books
Editorial urges voters to approve a $1.7 million bond issue to build a 16000 square foot Carbondale library on West Main Street with room for up to 100000 volumes and 77 parking spots. Project aims to double library use shortly after opening and provide space for all ages, tapes, and records.
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Acre Ee
Carbondale
Walnut Street
Brush
West Main Street
Cape Girardeau
Reagan
Congress
Lirary Board
Wilsonville residents urge action to curb toxic waste dumping
James D. Mussatto, mayor of Wilsonville, pleads for Illinois to pass new legislation to stop hazardous waste dumping after a year of nuisance odors dust and noise harming residents and environment. He cites EPA practices and the need to protect land air and water for future generations.
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EPA
Illinois
James D. Mussatto
Wilsonville
Reagan's 1981 economic plan aims for tax cuts and cuts
Reagan will propose a 30 percent cut in individual income tax rates over three years and about $50 billion in 1982 budget reductions. The package accelerates depreciation for business investments, targets Medicare and public jobs, and faces opposition in Congress while aiming to curb inflation.
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Jonathan Fuerbringer
New York Times
Washington
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Congress
Appalachian Regional Commission
Alan Greenspan
Senate
House
Caid
West Virginia
Tennessee
Howard Baker
Robert C. Byrd
Richard Nixon
Nixon
Robert Dole
Key
Senate Finance Committee
Carter
Chiles preps Social Security reform bill in Senate
Sen Lawton Chiles D Fla to introduce wide ranging changes this week aiming to boost elderly work incentives and curb benefits by repealing pensioner earnings limits and payroll tax, phasing in higher retirement ages, and altering Medicare and COLA rules as part of a broader package likely echoing Reagan administration ideas. The plan targets old age trust fund solvency by 1982 and gradual tax reductions through 1990 while keeping Medicare age at 65 and seeking 120 day CPI change notice from Labor.
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Congress
Reagan
Jim Jones
D-Okla
House Budget Committee
House
Senate
House Democrats
Peter Peyser
New York
Peyser
Edward Cowan
New York Times
Washington
Sen
Lawton Chiles
D-Fla
Senate Committee On Aging
Chiles
Clude
Unilingual Americans: Language crisis reshapes U S influence
Flora Lewis argues language skill is a key tool for global influence. Fewer than 4 percent of U S students studied more than two years of a foreign language by 1976, hindering diplomacy and trade as nations push to use their own tongues.
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Flora Lewis
New York Times
U.S
Paul Simon
Illinois
Belgium
Canada
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