Word: downing
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Gasoline ads have generally ignored air pollution, concentrating on better mileage and higher performance for engines. Last week Standard Oil of California began to use pollution control as a promotional tool. It will market a variety of its Chevron gasoline that, it says, will help produce cleaner air. The gas...
U.S. officials, far from celebrating their victory, were negotiating an arrangement to prevent the free-market price from dropping below $35. They intended to do so by loosening up the U.S.-inspired boycott against South African gold. Under the boycott, central banks had bought hardly any South African gold; this...
At a secret meeting last week in Rome, South African Finance Minister Nicolaas Diedrichs and Paul Volcker, U.S. Treasury Under Secretary, framed a compromise. It would permit South Africa to sell a certain amount of new gold to the International Monetary Fund whenever the country's balance of payments...
In Jewison's The Russians Are Coming, Keith began a new career as a deadpan comedian. Now, teamed with Bridges, he gives the liveliest performance of his career as an agnostic Catholic and whoremaster-repentant whose right hand has not consulted his left for 40 years. The pro and...
About five billion pounds of detergents are now being used annually, said Reuss. On the average, each pound contains about 40% phosphate, which does a fine job of cleaning dishes and clothes. But once flushed down the drain, it begins its environmental dirty work. Reuss has introduced a bill that...