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...Chevy Nova (up 33%) and the Plymouth Valiant (up 19%). But then the buyers are loading these relatively low-priced cars with expensive options. Ford President Lee lacocca expresses amazement at the number of motorists who purchase Pintos at a base price of about $2,000 and proceed to equip them with stereo systems for $200 each...
...twofold. Private citizens can hale constant noisemakers into a special civil court. If convicted, offenders will be fined up to $1,000 a day, of which the complainant may be awarded a bounty of as much as 50%. More important, the city is spending $800,000 to hire and equip a noise-abatement staff. Starting next week, twelve inspectors will prowl the city with sensitive decibel counters, ready to slap violators with $500 fines on the spot...
...financed by U.S. banks and the Government's Export-Import Bank. Because of the Communists' shortage of hard currency, Ross thinks that there is a better future in barter arrangements. He is trying to put together a swap between Scott Research, an American producer of automobile antipollution equipment, and the Rumanian auto industry, which must equip its U.S.-bound vehicles to meet 1975 emission standards...
Treigle, 45, is one of the best acting basses in the business. Till now he has been best known for his near-definitive interpretation of Boito's Meftstofele. In Hoffmann, he imbues Coppelius with the grace of ballet, which he studied to equip himself for opera. Treigle's Dappertutto is all bluster and crafty swagger, perhaps reflecting the lessons he once took from a Mexican matador. His Dr. Miracle demonstrates the hypnotic effect of the most stylistic, crafty and flexible set of arms and legs in all opera. As to his voice, a huge cannon's roar...
However, such innovations will never be more than palliatives, the commission warned, unless they are part of a broad reform that makes the goal of education teaching people how to learn. Only then can education equip people "for adapting to change" and make it possible for them to keep up dating their skills and knowledge. Such a flexible notion of education is hard to dispute. The question is whether it can be useful in transforming institutions in such radically different settings - all vis ited by the commissioners - as Zaire, Sweden, Egypt, Peru, the U.S.S.R., Cameroun...