Word: cars
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Ronalde Locke, a member of CAR, called the Medical School "a bastion of racist ideology," and contended that the United States in "trying to make up for loss of profits" by exploitation of minorities...
Campaigning with Reagan also meant hectic hours for National Political Correspondent Robert Ajemian, who interviewed the candidate in a car driving through Shreveport, La., then boarded a plane that blew out a tire, and finally reached New York at 4 a.m. to deliver his Q. and A. with Reagan. In Washington, Dean Fischer covered the Ford side of this week's cover stories...
Determined to operate on its own disciplined terms, Ziff-Davis offered Harris a raise, a car and a kick upstairs to the job of associate publisher-and fired him when he refused to ascend. He is being replaced as editor by Wesley First, a Ziff-Davis vice president. Says Harris, who has no immediate plans: "The vice presidents couldn't tolerate an editor who was unmanageable. We have a different set of values...
...auto-happy Californians be coaxed out of their cars? If Donald Burns' experience is any indication, the answer appears to be no. In an effort to cut down on gas consumption and air pollution, Burns, who is California's secretary of business and transportation, instituted a "disincentive" plan on March 15 aimed at frustrating Los Angeles-area motorists into leaving their cars at home. Two lanes-one in each direction-of the busy Santa Monica Freeway were marked with diamond-shaped signs and set aside for buses and cars carrying three or more people during the morning...
...car-pool usage has increased since the first chaotic day of the plan. But many Californians are convinced that the diamond-lane plan is a disaster, and several Los Angeles-area officials have attempted to repeal or modify the program. The California department of transportation seems determined to prove that the diamonds are forever. The department proudly claims that it now takes at least two minutes less to drive 12.5 miles of freeway than it did before mid-March. California motorists concede that this may be true. But they point out that it now takes longer than ever...