The first is that the amount the Library of Congress (where I am the director for preservation) spends in a year on microfilming would buy a storage facility "the size of a Home Depot, which would hold a century of newsprint".
IRS agents, from a yet to be disclosed agency level, were put on notice to be on the lookout for conservative sounding "triggers" such as the Tea Party, Liberty, Patriot, Constitution preservation, government spending, making America a better place, Christian and pro-Israel, bells and whistles.
He said county legislators from western Suffolk towns wanted preservation money spent in their districts.
In a parallel spirit of preservation, Erik Drigsdahl has spent the past decade saving the digitized images of leaves sold on eBay.
The sculpture made its modern-day debut at a scholarly conference at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, a Florentine preservation institute that spent nearly two decades carrying out the complex restoration.
So we substitute life-preservation for living, spending invaluable portions of youth and middle age on trying to increase our odds for an extra one, two or five years at the very end.
Another group, the Long Island Pine Barrens Society, said it would begin a lobbying campaign later this month to increase and expedite town and county spending for preservation programs approved by voters.
Towns are spending their preservation money faster than they are receiving it, forcing East Hampton to borrow against future tax revenues to buy land now, before soaring prices put it beyond reach.
Spending for preservation has hit historic highs since 1998, when the four towns' voters approved 2percentt real estate transfer taxes to finance preservation and Suffolk voters -- with large pluralities on the East End -- approved a $60 million parks, farms and open space program.
It had some progressive priorities as well -- money for unemployment benefits and infrastructure spending, and preservation of Medicare's eligibility age.
