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...cars will be fitted with catalytic converters that change noxious exhaust fumes to harmless gases. The lead in ordinary gasoline fouls the converters. Indeed, as little as two tanks of leaded gas will "poison" a converter; to replace it could cost the motorist up to $150. So automakers will equip their 1975 models with smaller-than-usual filler pipes leading into the gas tanks. Conventional gasoline nozzles will not fit into them; only special, smaller nozzles used to dispense unleaded gas will go inside...
...cheerless prospect. In the view of many, Haig has nowhere to go but down, as his own reputation becomes ever more identified with that of the White House. In the end, he may never achieve the role in American life for which his gifts, character and ambition seemed to equip...
...city of Chicago has set up 100 city-owned and an undetermined number of privately owned vacant lots as "neighborhood farms"; it plans to equip neighborhood farmers with seeds and seedlings, a farm guide, tools, fertilizer, insecticide, fencing and, when necessary, water from nearby fire hydrants...
...Break bottlenecks in the labor market. Reducing unemployment at present is inflationary because many of the jobless are unskilled women, teen-agers and blacks who could not produce enough, at least initially, to justify their pay. The U.S. should fund a massive job-training program to equip these would-be workers with the skills to make them productive; Nixon's 1973 cutbacks in job-training programs were the worst sort of federal "economy." Beyond that, the U.S. labor market now does a haphazard job of matching workers' talents to available positions; employers and workers seek each other through state...
...government has budgeted $580 million in aid for the Cambodian government this year, most of it intended to equip the Lon Nol Army and keep its propeller driven warplanes aloft...