Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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License-plate slogans tend to be innocuous boasts of a state's famous product: corn, copper, sunshine, lakes, Lincoln, enchantment. From 1969 on, New Hampshire car owners had a more forceful phrase, LIVE FREE OR DIE, and it drove some of them to distraction. Motorist George Maynard, feeling the slogan confined him to the right lane, went all the way to the Supreme Court in 1977 with his refusal to pay a $75 fine for blotting out the offending words on his plates. The court ruled in his favor...
...been remarkably peaceful and well disciplined. Only on occasion have crowds gotten out of control of the street marshals provided by Khomeini's amoeba-like organization. In one particularly grim example last week, a mob at the University of Tehran grabbed General Tagi Latifi, a police officer, from his car, screaming, "Kill him!" He was beaten senseless before being rescued by a group of clergymen...
Even before the Iranian crisis became acute, spot shortages of gasoline were occurring, largely because of tightened supplies of unleaded gas, which must be used in newer car models produced to meet federal antipollution laws. Unleaded gas requires about 10% more crude to produce than ordinary fuel, and the industry lacks the sophisticated refinery capacity needed to keep up with runaway demand...
...greatly increase the premium on unleaded, now 4.4%, it agrees that under the worst of circumstances, the gap between prices for leaded and unleaded could increase to 8?. Some experts fear that a big differential between the two kinds of gas would tempt motorists to use leaded in cars designed for unleaded. That would damage the car's antipollution gear and increase exhaust emissions...
...industry and culminate in actual gasoline rationing for the public. If Iranian production has not been substantially restored, and if voluntary measures have not cut consumption, then mandatory allocation will be brought in on a trial basis If stocks are still not being rebuilt, rationing would be imposed. Each car owner would be sent ration checks every three months specifying the number of gallons he could buy. The checks could be turned in at banks or other financial institutions in return for coupons that would have to be handed over at gas stations. The coupons might also be sold openly...