Word: cars
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...last March, Savage found himself in the company of the 28-year-old volunteer, who was assigned to brief him on Peace Corps activities. She says that during a two-hour tour of the night spots of Kinshasa, Zaire's capital city, Savage fondled her in his chauffeur-driven car and asked for sex. "He kept saying, 'That's the way the world works,' " she told the Washington Post. The woman says she escaped Savage's advances when an embassy worker intervened. The next day U.S. Ambassador William Harrop rebuked Savage, and soon afterward the volunteer was sent back...
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...
While the rest of the U.S. economy is still creaking forward, the recession monitor is flashing yellow in Detroit. The reckoning was postponed for months by the Big Three's inveterate optimism, which kept assembly plants cranking out cars as though nothing were wrong, and by Detroit's ever sweetening sales incentives. But by the end of the year's second quarter, evidence of a reversal was clearly at hand: during the first six months of 1989, total car sales in the U.S. fell 7.2% from last year's first half, to 5.1 million...
...more damaging evidence began to emerge. Investigators had long believed that the killer was either a policeman or a person posing as a police officer who lured his victims to their deaths with offers of assistance or by intimidating them. A search of Stevens' parents' property produced a police car, 100 police badges, 29 firearms and 26 license plates. This month the police obtained a search warrant in response to a 40-page affidavit prepared by the Green River Task Force, the group of King County officers assigned to the case. Recovered from Stevens' residence and his parents' home...
...Chairman Alan Greenspan acknowledges the threat of a recession and Detroit faces slumping car sales, economists debate how painful the slowdown may become...