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...prevent engine knock, still accounts for some 45% of all gasoline sales. But lead poisoning can damage the brain, liver and kidneys, particularly in children. Recent studies have linked lead to high blood pressure. In ordering refiners to get most of the lead out, the EPA estimates that the cutback could prevent some 5,000 heart attacks and 1,000 strokes next year alone...
Paradoxically, the Administration's cutback might make it more likely that heterosexuals will begin to contract the disease in significant numbers. Thus, taking a more callous attitude toward the accelerating rate of death among homosexuals may directly result in the death of "real" Americans, the red-blooded types who have children and vote Republican...
Indeed, if Reagan were to relent in what now seems to be his uncompromising commitment to Star Wars, one conceivable outcome of the forthcoming negotiations might be an updated, modified version of the ABM treaty, combined with a cutback in offensive forces. What the strategic concept sees as the "period of transition" would in fact be the goal of the process. That would be a disappointment to those, like Reagan, who want to see arms control eliminate nuclear weapons from the face of the earth, but it would be a relief to others who believe that the best arms control...
...party meeting last October, the delegates approved a Deng-inspired resolution detailing an ambitious package of reforms aimed at reinvigorating the urban economy and giving industrial workers some incentives. The program called for virtual autonomy for state-owned enterprises, the levying of corporate-type taxes and a radical cutback in central planning. Most important, the plan looked toward price reforms on goods subsidized by the state. Deng envisioned removing the subsidies, which account for nearly half of the country's $96.33 billion budget, and allowing prices to respond to market forces...
...broke a key cultural rule. The Data General manager abruptly chopped an order he had placed with a Japanese firm by one-third. "It was an ordinary procedure that in the U.S. would have taken 15 minutes," he recalled. But the Japanese were shocked and threatened by the unexpected cutback, and launched into negotiations with Neff that dragged on for three days...