Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under the plan, Detroit's beloved dinosaur, thumping its chrome-plated tail, is doomed for the swamps of extinction. The new plan will impose an excise tax on the purchase of large cars. Under consideration as a fallback plan is a gasoline tax, beginning with 5? per gal. and rising at regular intervals to 50? or $1 in order to discourage Americans from buying big gas-guzzling autos. According to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975, which the new Administration is embracing, each manufacturer by 1980 must produce a line of cars that achieve an average...
...Boston chapter of the Committee Against Racism (CAR) held a meeting yesterday to denounce what they called determinist theories like those in the book, "Sociobiology" by E.O. Wilson, professor of Zoology...
...Leonhart '65, a member of CAR, said it is important to raise consciousness among both the academic community and the general populace regarding the possible harm to the fight against racism of Wilson's and Jensen's ideas...
Nancy Bancroft '63, a member of CAR, criticized Wilson's behavioral theory as being potentially sexist, and said that it could be used to reinforce traditional male-dominant stereotypes...
...CAR is now circulating at Harvard a petition calling for a stop to the "teaching of sociobiology as a scientific truth in any department...