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...buyers seem to be showing solid interest in the subcompact Omni and its nearly identical (except for trim) Horizon sibling. Chrysler hopes that brisk orders will make up for a turndown in sales for its compact Aspen and Volare models. At 30 m.p.g., the Omni and Horizon exceed federal fuel economy standards for 1985, thus putting Chrysler in a good position for taking direct aim at Japanese competition (Toyota, Datsun) and Volkswagen's Rabbit, which will begin rolling off a VW-built assembly line in Pennsylvania in April...
Many of Guam's regulations reflect U.S. domestic politics more than common sense. The Environmental Protection Agency orders power stations to use low-sulfur oil even though the island is washed by a brisk 10 m.p.h. trade wind that blows away pollution. The Jones Act requires that all commodities shipped between U.S. ports be carried on U.S. vessels. The former rule adds $10 million to Guam's annual fuel bill; the latter has made the island's economy vulnerable to longshoremen's disputes that take place thousands of miles away. "We're always...
...Morrow; 504 pages; $29.95) he efficiently gets the reader from abstract expressionism to superrealism. Like a package-tour guide, he hits the peaks and some of the troughs. The visual impact of the more than 350 color plates is vigorous. But the pace of the survey is so brisk that the reader may find himself thinking, "If this is Thursday, it must be Lichtenstein...
Oblivious to the reprimands from the other side of Houston, the Women's Conference kept up its brisk pace. Only on the last day did the women begin to show understandable signs of fatigue and short temper. The final resolution proposed creating a Cabinet-level department to deal with women's issues. Some delegates objected that the position would "ghettoize" feminist concerns in one department and take the pressure off other areas of Government. The resolution was the first and the last to be disapproved. With that, the meeting adjourned in boisterous disarray...
Does a 4% unemployment goal make sense? Though the economy has been generating new jobs at a fairly brisk clip-some 200,000 a month, bringing total employment to an alltime high-the jobless rate has been stuck at about 7% since April. The statistics say that today, 6.9 million Americans are looking for work, a number usually associated with deep recession rather than steady growth. But the scary overall figures mask conditions that are both better and worse than they seem. On the plus side, the unemployment rate for all whites is 6.1%. Among white adult males the rate...