Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looking for some late-night relief. But not in the city's "Combat Zone," where one prostitute lamented her lack of trade: "They don't want to do it now-it's too hot. They all want air conditioning. You think I got air conditioning?" In Detroit, workers at the big automobile companies asked the same question. As temperatures in the foundries rose to nearly 130°, they were sent home or, in some cases, walked out on their own. At the White House, Press Secretary Jody Powell had to explain why Jimmy Carter wanted to lunch...
...governments. Foreigners, for their part, are often surprised by the freedom of operation they enjoy in the U.S. Foreign businessmen find a tolerance of competition that would be inconceivable in their own countries. Example: Lucas Industries, the big British auto-parts maker, dispatched one of its top men to Detroit to announce that it intended to attain sales of $500 million a year by 1980-at the expense of U.S. companies...
Indeed, as the prosecution struggled to build a case against the two nurses in U.S. District Court in Detroit, local press reports made it seem increasingly unlikely that the shy and soft-spoken young women would ever be convicted...
Throughout the '60s, California rode point on reality. It discovered the Frisbee, embraced vodka and popularized credit cards and garage-door openers. The 1964 student protests at Berkeley sparked passions on campuses across the country. Detroit and Newark symbolized black rage, but Watts was the first ghetto to burn. Three years before Wounded Knee fell under siege, Indian militants fought for possession of Alcatraz. Almost every state had its draft riot, hippie commune and Black Panther spokesman-but the phenomenon that each represented surfaced first in California...
AUTO EMISSIONS. Under the 1970 act, automakers had until the 1975 model year to eliminate 90% of all hydrocarbons (HC), carbon monoxide (CO) and nitrogen oxides (NOx). Detroit has cut harmful emissions considerably: this year's General Motors cars, for example, produce 90% less HC and 83% less CO than those of the early 1960s. But faced with the difficulty of reducing emissions while also cutting gasoline consumption, the automakers persuaded the Environmental Protection Agency to extend the deadline to 1978. Now they want still more time and less stringent standards. The Senate is willing to give them until...