Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week the Supreme Court heard arguments on the right of the city of Detroit to use another kind of regulation. Though Detroit's policy is to disperse rather than cluster its porn shops, the court's decision, due in June, will presumably settle a community's right to use zoning against porn...
...sales are not coming where Detroit's automakers had expected. For all the stress on fuel economy and thinking small that followed the 1973 Middle East oil embargo, the public is now largely spurning the industry's tiniest models. Instead, motorists are buying larger, somewhat gas-thirstier compacts and intermediates that offer a bit more leg room, somewhat more trunk space and in some cases even a touch of high style...
...Volkswagen-designed four-cylinder engine. Indeed, car buyers will find an even wider range of models of all sizes in showrooms round the nation next autumn. GM alone will sell no fewer than 40 models with four different kinds of engines. Whatever kind of car the public may want, Detroit hopes to have it ready, thus coping with buyers who think small one moment and bigger the next...
...neither they nor 50 other companies that Foss approached were interested. Then he learned that he could qualify for a typist's job at Michigan Bell Telephone Co. if he could manage 45 words a minute, and today he is studying typing at a community college near Detroit. The $139-a-week job is no sure thing, but Foss is hopeful: "I'm up to 34 words a minute...
...officials in Washington are privately discussing the possibility of an outright financial collapse in a year and a half. One of the bleakest assessments yet of the service's future is contained in a speech this week by Postmaster General Benjamin F. Bailar before the Economic Club of Detroit. Unless drastic changes are made in the way that Americans send and receive their mail, Bailar warned, "we are heading for potential disaster...