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According to President Carter, the Soviets are "innate racists" who are doomed to fail in the Third World. What's all the fuss about then...
...Chrysler got such diametrically opposed results on the critical second test. Determining whether the first let-go-of-the-wheel test has any real relation to the auto's performance, says Dugoff, "will be tough-we will have to do some rather extensive analysis." Should Omni-Horizon fail NHTSA tests, the agency could order Chrysler to recall all autos sold in order to correct the trouble. And if, as Consumers Union suspects, the flaw is "an inherent design defect," the agency could require redesign and replacement of the whole steering system...
...hapless California officials who are now moving gingerly to bow to the will of the majority cannot, however, fail to hear the clash of other voices. Indeed, there was a tinge of class conflict in the campaign for Proposition 13, with possible portents of racial trouble in the simmering summer months. By and large, homeowners from the middle and upper classes, justly aggrieved by their rising tax burden, had led the tax revolt. But worried blacks and Hispanics in California feared, with some cause, that as government turned more frugal, they would be hurt the most...
Farcical misadventures follow, but what makes The Norman Conquests memorable is not Ayckbourn's cleverness so much as his compassion. As Norman's strategies start to fail, the consequences seem almost tragic. We realize that Ayckbourn's characters can never fulfill even their modest dreams of adventure and romance; they are doomed by circumstance and social convention to a defeated middle age. Perhaps the fate of the six is foreshadowed by Ayckbourn's seventh and unseen character: a family matriarch who never leaves her bedroom because she "just has no desire...
...come forward with a halfway measure. It would pay subsidies to farmers and, in effect, boost sugar prices to 14.4¢ per Ib. This proposal would cost the public an extra $120 million in direct payments, plus possibly millions more to underwrite federal support if sugar prices fail to rise high enough to enable farmers to redeem their Government loans. The Administration proposal has so little support on Capitol Hill that no Congressman has agreed to sponsor it. Because it would keep the price of sugar lower than the Church bill, the President's proposal does have the enthusiastic backing...