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...much nitrogen oxide out of the exhaust as they must by 1978, however, the carmakers will have to resort to lower combustion temperatures, reduced compression ratios and other engine modifications. Those changes, they say, will cut into fuel economy, currently a prime concern of motorists. Critics contend that the industry should never have put its main reliance on the catalytic converter in the first place, but should have concentrated on engine modifications long...
...both by the United States and from a part of the University which she considers her home. Nonsense. It is her choice to disdain Christianity and there is nothing wrong with that. Further, Harvard should avoid conflicts such as the one involving Freshman registration and Rosh Hashanah. But to contend that because not all students here are Christian members of that faith should be prohibited from expressing their sentiments in public decorations is a mischievous perversion of the concept of rights of the minority. Steve Boutwell...
...interfere with raising her son. But the jury of ten men and two women, apparently moved by Jimmy's emotional plea to "get my brother out of this particular home," granted custody to the father. The verdict is a legal setback for gay-rights activists, who contend that homosexuality should not be considered an obstacle to being a good parent...
...some restaurateurs contend that shark may become as popular as Mali-Mali, a dolphin dish that has become a prized delicacy in Hawaii and the West. Miami Entrepreneur William Doherty, who has built a $275,000 trawler-factory to fish for shark, calls it "the product of the future." Its fate will depend largely on the success of the strategy that U.S. restaurateurs are using to overcome the stigma of shark: capitalizing on it. At Gatsby's restaurant in Atlanta's American Motor Hotel, for example, Catering Director George Gold promotes his baked mako by putting...
Even so, many economists contend that the traditional 4% "full-employment" goal has become unrealistic. They view a 5% figure as about the best that can be achieved without radical changes in the way that labor markets operate. Still other experts argue, with much force, that no single statistic can or should be sanctified as the "full-employment" goal. One of them is Robert Aaron Gordon of the University of California, who headed a Government study that led to the last major overhaul of employment statistics...