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When the final measure was released, environmentalists rushed to declare defeat. What angered them most was a provision that would allow automakers to build some cars that spew out more hydrocarbons than they do under current law, even though new overall emissions standards would be tougher than before. The carmakers could do that by averaging the emissions of every car they ^ produce in a given model year, offsetting the most polluting vehicles with less polluting models. Auto-company experts do not dispute the environmentalists' interpretation of the "fleet-averaging" provision, but they insist that the bottom line will still...
...stubborn refusal to open its shores to foreign goods. This economic policy has been the most noticeable aspect of Japan's world view, but it has been accompanied by two other significant decisions--a refusal to spend much on foreign aid and a shying away from any military build...
Since the disaster of the World War, the LDP has steered clear of any role in foreign affairs, prefering instead to build quietly the Japanese economy. The policy worked well for years as Japan filled the world with its products and kept foreign goods away from its shores...
Moreover, points out Eugene Cernan, who walked on the moon in 1972, with such a long-range goal "we can then work backward and take the steps to get us there." That would eliminate the let's-build-it-and-see-what-it's-good-for approach. Far from withering, other space initiatives would be lifted by the rising tide of national interest and funding. Unmanned probes to the planets would continue, and NASA would still be able to launch the Mission to Planet Earth, a series of satellites designed to study the planet's environment and give scientists...
...when the woman's complete story is finally revealed, in the last five pages of the book, the whole thing is so predictable and unworthy of such an immense build-up, it redefines the term "let down...