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...three: General Motors, Ford and Fiat...
...prices in 1977 as a way of lowering ticket prices for travelers and making the carriers more economically efficient. Now, to maintain safety in the skies the FAA is limiting the number of flights and the availability of seats. That move could channel business to some carriers by fiat and shut others out, making service and fares less competitive and defeating the goals of deregulation. The end result would then be less friendly skies for new competitors and higher ticket prices for passengers. -By John DeMott. Reported by Gisela Bolte/Washington and Frederick Ungeheuer/New York
...candidates is clearly known, said White House Spokesman Larry Speaks, " He will not seek only candidates who necessarily agree with him on every position, but rather those who share one key view, the role of the courts is to interpret the law, not to enact new law by judicial fiat...
Last week, police investigated 30 reports of larceny. Total losses in the thefts was estimated at $6841.11. The crimes ranged from a 1976 Fiat Spider stolen from the IAB parking lot to a phone cut from its extension cord at the Freshman Union and included seven missing bicycles...
...they want pupils to learn biology, as the subject is understood today. The relation of science and morality is an important matter. Creationism may belong in social studies or the history of religion, but it should not be pushed into biology classes or textbooks, especially not by legislative fiat. As celebrated Geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky put it: "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution...