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Of the 26 railroads still offering intercity passenger service in 1970 only six declined to join Amtrak Nearly everyone involved expected the experiment to be short-lived the Nixon administration and many Washington insiders viewed the NRPC as a politically expedient way for the President and Congress to give passenger trains a "last hurrah" as demanded by the public They expected Amtrak to quietly disappear as public interest waned After Fortune magazine exposed the manufactured mismanagement in 1974 Louis W Menk chairman of the Burlington Northern Railroad remarked that the story was undermining the scheme to dismantle Amtrak Proponents also hoped that government intervention would be brief and that Amtrak would soon be able to support itself Neither view had proved to be correct; for popular support allowed Amtrak to continue in operation longer than critics imagined while financial results made passenger train service returning to private railroad operations infeasible.[citation needed], Voters in the area defined as the proposed city of South Fulton overwhelmingly rejected cityhood in September 2007 it was the only remaining unincorporated section of the county until the residents voted in November 2016 to incorporate as the city of South Fulton Georgia Prior to that vote North Fulton which is overwhelmingly Republican and members of the state legislature had discussed forcing South Fulton residents to incorporate as a city in order to force Fulton County out of the municipal services business, Hammond Drive Central Campus 22 Nick Markakis Injury icon 2.svg. 61/16 90/32 Georgia's major fine art museums include the High Museum of Art and the Michael C Carlos Museum both in Atlanta; the Georgia Museum of Art on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens; Telfair Museum of Art and the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah; and the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta.

41/5 59/15 Dave Bancroft Water is provided by various county and a few city systems Several of these systems actually serve parts of neighboring counties and cities as well the Cobb-Marietta Water Authority serves not only Cobb but also parts of neighboring Paulding and Cherokee counties for example During drought or other emergency cities and counties can enact outdoor water-use restrictions however some cross-jurisdiction water systems have also acted to put bans in place in late September 2007 the state Environmental Protection Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources stepped-in with its first-ever ban covering most of the northern half of the state While surface water is by far the primary source of water for the region the drought had many systems (and a few wealthy homeowners) drilling new wells for ground water though the local water table is around 400 feet (120 m) deep on average. The Georgia Bulldogs (Southeastern Conference) Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (Atlantic Coast Conference) Georgia State Panthers and Georgia Southern Eagles (Sun Belt Conference) are Georgia's NCAA Division I FBS football teams having won multiple national championships between them the Georgia Bulldogs and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets have a historical rivalry in college football known as Clean Old-Fashioned Hate and the Georgia State Panthers and the Georgia Southern Eagles have recently developed their own rivalry! Pakistan (24), 9% Atlanta Georgia business directory, 1920 2,895,832 11.0% Don't know 7.2 Housing An EMD AEM-7 with a Metroliner in 1987 the AEM-7 was Amtrak's workhorse on electrified routes for over 30 years. 1890 65,533 75.2% The Georgia Tech Band Program also in the School of Music represents Georgia Tech at athletic events and provides Tech students with a musical outlet it was founded in 1908 by 14 students and Robert "Biddy" Bidez the marching band consistently fields over 300 members Members of the marching band travel to every football game; See also: List of gold mines in Georgia 134 2821.