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While the regulation will be a blow to the users of halon and CFCs, it could, ironically, produce a windfall for producers. Until substitutes that do not harm the ozone become available, the prices of the chemicals may surge because of limited supplies. Recognizing that possibility, the EPA has asked for public comment on two ways of preventing producers from making excessive profits. One proposal calls for a special tax on earnings from CFC and halon sales, the other for the Government to auction off manufacturing rights, making a company pay for the privilege of producing the chemicals...
...notion that a disagreement with CUNY washolding up the appointment had a sound basis inhistory, for the two schools have sometimes shareda less than friendly relationship. Thehighly-publicized Counter appointment, and thescholar's subsequent refusal, came as the mostrecent blow for a school that has been dodgingpunches all its life...
Some of the stunts are crazier than anything the Phillie Phanatic would ever do. The Everett Giants of Washington have featured such carnival acts as fire eaters and Captain Dynamite, who seems to blow himself up. "The bizarre works fairly well for us," says Giants Owner Bob Bavasi. So do more orthodox gimmicks. The Louisville Redbirds brought in the Beach Boys for a postgame concert at a cost of $100,000. The game drew 22,000 fans to the stadium, three times the norm, while concessions took in $100,000, about four times the usual sales. At the final home...
...accord delivers a blow to U.S. influence in the Arab world and highlights the Reagan Administration's losing fight to overcome the resistance of the powerful U.S. Jewish lobby to weapons sales to Arab countries. The last major U.S. deal with the Saudis was in 1981, when the Administration barely surmounted congressional opposition and sold Riyadh five AWACS radar- surveillance planes...
Militant rhetoric aside, many analysts concluded that immediate retaliation against the U.S. was unlikely. For one thing, the Iranians appear to lack the military capability to strike an effective blow at U.S. forces in the region. Though the Revolutionary Guards' Boghammar speedboats continue to threaten neutral shipping in the crowded gulf, any attempt to confront U.S. warships patrolling in the area would be suicidal. And sponsorship of new terrorist bombings or kidnapings would only turn international public opinion against Iran, taking much of the onus...