Word: boosting
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...raise the average fuel efficiency of their fleets to 27.5 m.p.g., up from 26.5 m.p.g. this year. That is a step in the right direction, but an extremely timid one. The Government should be setting much higher goals. An even quicker way to curb fuel consumption would be to boost the gasoline tax, but Bush seems to be locked $ into his "Read my lips" campaign pledge to avoid new taxes...
...cause got a big boost last month with Du Pont's announcement that it would form a joint venture with Waste Management to build the country's largest plastic-recycling operation. The facility, which will open in 1990, will separate and clean 40 million lbs. of the material a year. But that will only dent the problem: the U.S. annually produces 1.6 billion lbs. of plastic soda, milk and water bottles, enough to fill a line of dump trucks stretching from New York City to Cleveland...
SIMPLE MINDS: STREET FIGHTING YEARS (A&M). Superb rock with a big thematic reach and the rhythm to boost its high ambitions. Belfast Child, a heart-torn vision of the Irish troubles, is more evocative, and more devastating, than a hundred editorials or a thousand speeches...
Illinois' Thompson, a Republican, is considering a boost from 20 cents to 35 cents per cigarette pack that would net $170 million. California's voters last November approved raising the tax on a pack of cigarettes from 10 cents to 35 cents, which should bring in $300 million this year. Texas legislators are pondering a possible 7 cents increase, to 33 cents, in the same tax. Louisiana may raise the gasoline tax from 16 cents to 20 cents...
...boost slumping sales, Ford and GM have offered a 2.9% rate for two-year loans, 5.9% for three-year terms and 6.9% on four-year deals on most 1988 and - '89 models. Chrysler offered the same rates on the three- and four-year plans. The automakers have also increased their rebates to as much as $2,000 on slower-selling vehicles. The Big Three are suffering a painful sales slowdown, partly because of rising interest rates. Sales of U.S.-made cars and trucks fell 12.6% in March, compared with the same month...