Word: cued
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to incorporating the latest in high-tech gadgetry, the products shown by eleven Japanese auto companies placed great emphasis on fuel economy and efficient design. Engines remain small, and reinforced plastic is replacing metal. Minicar Maker Daihatsu displayed a runabout with a 60-cu.-in. diesel that boasts 87 m.p.g. at 37 m.p.h. An Isuzu engine had ceramic parts, a first step toward the full ceramic engine, which promises up to 50% more fuel economy, 30% more power, and requires no radiator...
...biggest client is Inland Storage Distribution Center, a subsidiary of Beatrice Foods. The company's underground storage space amounts to a staggering 23 million cu. ft., enough to keep the food to supply a meal to every man, woman and child in America, all within 26 miles of the geographic center of the 48 contiguous states. Inland President Warren Lewis whimsically calls the facility the "best little warehouse in Kansas...
...roll downhill, threatening to divert a river through the town of Payson (pop. 5,000) before it firmed up. In Northern California earlier this month, a mud slide in the Sierras buried a 1,000-ft. stretch of Highway 50 between Sacramento and South Lake Tahoe under 60,000 cu. yds. of mud, rocks and debris. Highway crews, unable to remove the rubble, are now paving over the roadblock, which runs 30 to 40 ft. high in some spots. Mail in the area is temporarily being delivered by the 450-member National Pony Express Association, a private society that operates...
...largest remaining synfuels project also looks a bit wobbly. That is the $2.1 billion, 750-employee Great Plains venture to extract synthetic gas from coal near Beulah, N. Dak. Great Plains, owned by five energy and utility firms, had planned to charge up to $10 per 1,000 cu. ft. of gas. But the facility, currently 70% complete, could charge no more than $6.25 per 1,000 cu. ft. because of the fall in fuel-oil prices, to which the gas rates are pegged. At those prices, Great Plains looks like a terrible investment for its owners. They are turning...
...winners clearly would be the 20 major oil companies that own about 75% of the so-called old gas drilled before April 1977. That gas is tightly regulated under present law. Some of it sells for as little as 280 per 1,000 cu. ft., or less than one-tenth of the price of new gas, for which ceilings are higher to encourage exploration. Under the Reagan plan, producers would immediately be permitted to negotiate higher rates for old gas, some of which has been left in the ground because it fetches such a low price. The smaller energy companies...