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<text id=90TT0684>
<title>
Mar. 19, 1990: Grapevine:Cheapening Challenger
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Mar. 19, 1990 The Right To Die
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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NATION, Page 20
Grapevine
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<p> CHEAPENING CHALLENGER. After the 1986 space-shuttle
disaster, Florida set up a foundation to commemorate the seven
astronauts who died in the explosion and funded it with the
sale of $15 special license tags. Now, 500,000 tags and some
$10 million later, some legislators think the funds are being
misused. They note that the commission's eleven-member staff
has spent more than $600,000 on "administrative expenses,"
nearly as much as the design costs of a yet-to-be-constructed
black granite memorial on Cape Canaveral. Some lawmakers have
suggested a boycott of the license plates, and Representative
Harry Goode is fashioning a bill to make the foundation
accountable to state auditors.
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