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...necessity is the mother of invention, the threat of regulation is often its father. Faced with growing government pressure for cleaner automotive fuel, Atlantic Richfield last week became the first U.S. oil company to introduce an unleaded gasoline designed to run effectively in older vehicles that were built to use leaded fuel. The Los Angeles-based company said the new brand, Emission Control-1, will eliminate up to 15% of the pollution caused by cars built before 1975 and trucks from before 1980. While such vehicles represent only 15% of the Los Angeles area's cars and trucks, they produce...
...that would create the world's second largest drug company. The friendly merger would be the largest so far in the current race to create globe-spanning pharmaceutical giants. The new company, with headquarters in Manhattan, would bring together such products as Bristol-Myers' Bufferin painkiller and Windex glass cleaner with Squibb's Capoten, a leading prescription formula for heart ailments...
...fish tires, you draw it close to your leg, remove the hook and hold the trout for a moment, gauging its length before giving it back to the stream. That too is part of the sport. When waters were cleaner and trout spawned nearly everywhere, killing and eating the fish were a more common reward for the catch. But a generation raised on conservation ethics is releasing fish to reproduce and perhaps be caught again. Our atavistic selves relish the hunt, but our better natures understand the need to protect what we cherish. Fly-fishing lets us do both...
...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 be cleaner air. "Some cars may be below and some may be above, but they all have to meet the lower standard on average," says an industry lobbyist...
Instead, the government made clear it plans to continue rounding up anyone involved in the seven weeks of protests for freedom, democratic reform and cleaner government. A report in the Communist Party newspaper, the People's Daily, said those who surrender will get lenient treatment...