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...different types of vehicles, ranging from buses to Jeeps. In 1975, it introduced a kind of car motor that reduced fuel consumption by as much as 20%. The company also offers a sound-reduction system with its engines that cuts car noises and vibration by 8%. Such innovations bolster the firm's reputation for engineering. Says Tojo: "We have in our company enough technology to cope with whatever Detroit might come up with in the future...
Jaruzelski moved to bolster his government at week's end by reshuffling five Cabinet portfolios. The major casualty was Justice Minister Jerzy Bafia, whose slow-moving investigation of a police attack on Solidarity workers at Bydgoszcz last March had angered the union's activists...
...Saudi plan has been previously reported to involve two parts: 1) up to $4 billion in economic aid to Syria, which would bolster the regime of President Hafez Assad and go far to alleviate Syria's isolation in the Arab world; and 2) the addition of Saudi and perhaps Kuwaiti troops to the Arab Deterrent Force, now all Syrian, that entered Lebanon in 1976 under a peace-keeping mandate from the Arab League. The diversification of troops would assuage charges by right-wing Lebanese Christians that the Syrians have become an occupation army...
Today, Huggins makes no bones about the political significance of his decision to come to Harvard and to become chairman of the department. He says he accepted Rosovsky's offer as part of a greater effort to bolster the legitimacy of Afro-American studies as an academic field: "The failure of the program at Harvard would have consequences to the field of study itself that would be harmful. A lot of scholars in the country look to Harvard. If we could make Afro-American studies work here very well, it could have important positive results for the field...
...Administration has somewhat slowed the momentum of its budget victory by pushing a hastily conceived plan to bolster the troubled Social Security system by trimming benefits-especially for those who retire at age 62. The Senate last week issued Reagan a stinging rebuke by passing, on a 96-to-0 vote, a "sense of Congress" resolution opposing any "precipitous and unfair" reductions in benefits for early retirees and any package of cuts that is more severe than necessary to keep the system solvent in the short run. Congressman Claude Pepper of Florida, chairman of the House Select Committee on Aging...