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...pollution caused by cars built before 1975 and trucks from before 1980. While such vehicles represent only 15% of the Los Angeles area's cars and trucks, they produce nearly one-third of its automotive air pollution. When EC-1 goes on sale next month at 700 Arco stations across Southern California, the company said, it will be priced the same as leaded fuel, though the new gas costs a few cents more a gallon to produce...
They own Los Angeles' Arco Plaza. In New York City they have scooped up the Exxon Building, the Algonquin Hotel and the vaultlike home of Tiffany & Co. They are beating the U.S. at everything from VCRs to semiconductors. And now they are trying to buy U.S. colleges...
...next Administration and Congress may try to help balance the budget by raising taxes on gasoline. Oil and real estate baron Nicolas Salgo gave more than $500,000 to the New York State Republican Party. Great Western Resources of Houston donated $100,000 to the Democrats. Los Angeles-based Arco played both sides of the contest, with a $135,000 contribution to the Republicans and $85,000 to the Democrats...
...including some 10,000 at George Washington University alone. Another virus, called SCORES for the name of the bogus computer file it creates, first appeared in Apple Macintosh computers owned by Dallas-based EDS, the giant computer-services organization. But it spread rapidly to such firms as Boeing and Arco, and has since turned up in computers at NASA, the IRS and the U.S. House of Representatives...
...case concerned fishing rights between two countries, and the later-to-be ARCO official got an "A" on the exam. When someone asked the professor how he could give a top grade to a person unfamiliar with the subject, he replied that the student had written his response from the perspective of the fish...