1.   But Congress, which has consistently underfinanced park maintenance, should not await further calamities to begin restoring the system as a whole to good health.

2.   Last week the president visited Sequoia National Park in California to boast about his program to improve park maintenance.

3.   Over the last year, Giuliani has turned over an array of municipal services to private companies, from parks maintenance to repaving city streets.

4.   People in workfare programs work, for example, as street cleaners, file clerks, library aides and park maintenance employees.

5.   Some senators want to divert it to parks maintenance.

6.   The public likes many federal services, such as border guards, highways, park maintenance, child immunization, airplane crash investigations, protective health and safety regulations.

7.   The public likes many federal servich as border guards, highways, park maintenance, child immunization, airplane crash investigations, protective health and safety regulations.

8.   Under that program, which is scheduled to begin in January, workers would perform jobs like snow removal, street cleaning and park maintenance.