Word: belt
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...earlier request, Washington agreed to provide $106 million for the production of a new Israeli tank called the Merkava (chariot) and to supply Israel with 18 attack helicopters and an undetermined number of F-16 fighters. As proof that the country was prepared to do a bit of belt tightening before making new requests, Begin's government last week sprang an unpleasant surprise on Israeli consumers. Finance Minister Simcha Ehrlich announced wide-ranging anti-inflation measures to reduce a $130 million budget deficit. By cutting subsidies on basic commodities, the government forced a 25% rise in the price...
...passenger in seat R-25-1 would appear to be a belly dancer practicing her routine in seat-belt situ. Almost since takeoff from Cologne on Lufthansa's flight 408 to New York, she has been rotating her midsection, rolling her eyes shimmying her shoulders and flexing her thighs. And she is not the only one-just about everyone aboard is doing this "sitdown rumba." Is this a traveling company of A Chorus Line? In-flight ecdysiast transcendentalists...
...Spartanburg than in West Germany, while fringe benefits for the young, unskilled, nonunionized workers are not at all comparable to the cradle-to-grave cosseting of the European worker. Mueller, who raises a few cattle on the side, has found the economics of building textile machinery in the Bible Belt so favorable that he has been able to develop an export business. One of his customers: the Soviet Union...
Adams estimated that the devices will save 9,000 lives each year because drivers cannot avoid using them (some 80% of drivers and passengers do not buckle their lap and shoulder belts now). Air bags do not require a motorist to do anything; they inflate instantly upon the impact of a collision, keeping the driver and front-seat passengers from being hurled against the dashboard or windshield. To be fully effective, however, an air-bag system should be supplemented with a lap belt-which is not passive. Only one other passive-restraint system exists, a shoulder harness that automatically protects...
Without Evidence. But Chrysler grumped that Adams' decision would "force the American people to pay triple the cost for a second-best safety system." It charged that Adams "ignored his own agency's data, which show that present seat belts will save 50% more lives than air bags"-assuming, of course, that seat belts are consistently used. American Motors said the ruling was made "without clear evidence of [the bags'] lifesaving effectiveness over present belt systems [and] is a multi-billion-dollar gamble with consumers' money...