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...Francisco, the Russian River rose to inundate the surrounding resorts and country houses as well as the tiny town of Guerneville. Said Guerneville Resident Mary Cervantes: "We've lost everything." Spreading out from California, the storms cut a haphazard trail of havoc. Mudslides that cut the main auto routes through the High Sierras stranded thousands of gamblers in Reno. In Utah rain deluged the low-lying areas and snows blanketed the mountains...
...down. Not long ago, Senator John Danforth, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, could be seen on the Capitol steps trying to wrench his hand from the grip of a lobbyist for the textile industry seeking new protectionist legislation. Though Danforth himself wants help for the shoe, auto and agricultural industries in his native Missouri, the Senator, an ordained Episcopal minister, rolled his eyes heavenward and mumbled, "Save me from these people...
...Amendment jamboree, where Americans of all persuasions clamor to be heard. Movie stars plead on behalf of disease prevention, Catholic clerics inveigh against abortion, farmers in overalls ask for extended credit, Wall Street financiers extol the virtues of lower capital-gains taxes. No single group dominates. When the steel, auto and rubber industries saw the Reagan Administration as an opening to weaken the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, the "Green Lobby," a coalition of environmental groups, was able to stop them...
...sales: $6.7 billion), which does some 50% of its business overseas. "A cheaper dollar certainly gives us immediate help in countries where we compete with Komatsu of Japan." American carmakers also are delighted because the declining dollar removes some of the $2,000-per-car cost advantage that Japanese auto firms have held in the U.S. Partly as a result, Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca announced two weeks ago that his company will begin selling cut-rate versions of its Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon subcompacts next May for as little as $5,499, less than comparable Japanese autos...
...base insurance fees on a doctor's individual record. Higher rates for physicians with many malpractice judgments could mean lower rates for competent physicians, and might even price inept doctors out of the market. University of Virginia Law Professor Jeffrey O'Connell, the co-developer of no-fault auto insurance, has proposed a system that would allow a doctor to pay for a victim's economic losses in exchange for being free of further liability. A 1985 Illinois law provides for pretrial panels to rule on the merits of a proposed malpractice suit; the state supreme court is expected...