A nickel fare reigned from the system's first days, in 1904, through World War II, an egalitarian entry fee that also starved the system of funds.
When starved, our system starts to break down and eat itself -- a phenomenon not unfamiliar to an observer of the European political and economic landscape of the last few years.
Starving the system ultimately helped fuel the argument for abandoning it all together.
But the bigger problem was that Semapa's water tariffs had been too low for too long, starving the system of investment.
* Healthcare Though unable to repeal Obama's healthcare reforms, the Republicans will potentially be able to starve the system of cash and make it practically much harder to put into place.
Bottom line: reducing reimbursements starves the system while the costs of healthcare continue to seek the stratosphere.
Critics say that agenda is too small to have any real impact on an overcrowded, understaffed system, starved of money, and there was, at some prisons we visited, a suspicion that we were inspectors, come to find fault.
Educational spending on the city's children is not merely constitutionally sufficient, the state argues in its briefs, but considerably higher than in most other large urban districts, a fact that is "hardly indicative of a school system starved for resources".
In truth, they are the result of a comprehensive attack on public education that has seen the system starved.
It's an approach experts are deeming "the wrong way around", but with a mental-health system starved of funding and antidepressants cheaper than ever, is there any other option?
At 19 dpf, fish were isolated from the maintenance system, starved for 24 h in a dish, supplied with the fluorescently labeled food for 150 seconds in a new dish and subjected to the evaluation of food intake as follows (Fig. 1b).
