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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposal. After all, barging into the free market system on behalf of a declining concern violated every tenet of what is supposed to be America's survival-of-the-fittest economy. And the politicians seemed to take a hard line on Chrysler, casting aspersions on Chrysler's tax code shenanigans, and substituting them with their own plan. Treasury Secretary G. William Miller said that the government might aid Chrysler with a guaranteed loan of $750 million, but only after the corporation made internal sacrifices and set out a sound plan of recovery. President Carter, worried about recession and unemployment, agreed...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Chrysler Squeezes the Feds | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...plan he had helped to conjure up for Chrysler was just one way to get the federal government to shell out the bucks. And he seemed a little confused that the politicians hadn't liked the tax credit plan better. After all, doing business through the tax code, which he called the guts of the economy, with fancy formulas and convoluted reasoning, is the best way to throw the public off the scent...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Chrysler Squeezes the Feds | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

These exhortations were compiled by top-ranking police officers of Saitama prefecture, ten miles north of Tokyo. The sex directives are part of a 45-page code of conduct issued to 6,840 members of the Saitama police force. The handbook, which also includes strictures against drinking and bribe taking, was prompted by the rising crime rate among police in Japan. Following the rape-murder of a college student by a bachelor cop last year, one Tokyo newspaper sagely observed that despite the police force's proud record of professionalism, "under the uniform there is nothing but naked flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Sex Code for Cops | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

Though the new code frowns on promiscuity, it also concedes the difficulty of continence. "When you try to excessively control sex, you might end up touching off an explosion," it explains. Masturbation, the handbook says, is "the safest way" to relieve sexual tensions and certainly preferable to dalliance with prostitutes. Reason: "You might even be blackmailed into marrying such a girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Sex Code for Cops | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...number of tenant groups have also clashed with the University, pointing to eviction attempts and, in one case, health code violations. One prominent Harvard tenant, the Thomas More Bookshop, recently lost its Holyoke St. store because Harvard rented out the space to a pizzeria. The shop, one of the only ones devoted to scholarly religious works, will move to a spot Harvard provided in Holyoke Center--one its owner says she cannot afford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notes From the Underground... | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

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