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Catalysthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13774181092533673295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-686348594675966999.post-58254380210616528622016-12-16T22:09:00.001-05:002016-12-16T22:09:02.642-05:002017 Global Forecast<p dir="ltr"><a href="
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<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2016/02/a-blueprint-for-balance-a-federal-budget-for-2017" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0 , 140 , 186); font-family: "gudea" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;">Part I, Blueprint for Balance: A Federal Budget for 2017</a><span style="color: rgb(69 , 69 , 69); font-family: "gudea" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">, </span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: rgb(69 , 69 , 69); font-family: "gudea" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">released in March 2016, provides detailed recommendations for the annual congressional budget.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 150%;">The rink was closed in 1980 for a proposed two
years of renovations at $9.1 million. <i>Six years and $13 million later</i>,
after the problem-plagued work was still not completed by the city,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">Donald Trump</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 150%;"><span style="text-align: start;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 150%;">persuaded Mayor<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">Ed Koch</span></span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 150%;"><span style="text-align: start;"> </span></span><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 150%;">to let him complete the work in four
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offered to pay for the renovations himself with the <i>stipulation</i> that he be allowed to <i>run the venue</i> <i>and an adjacent
restaurant and use the profits to recoup his costs</i>.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="text-align: start;"> </span>The rink reopened to the public on
November 13, 1986, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and press conference attended
by Koch and Trump, covered by national evening broadcast television news.<span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space">Total cost of renovations by Trump came in under budget at $2.25 million.</span></b></span><span style="background-color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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