Word: fiat
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...administrative fiat, Dean John Fox has brought about an unwanted and unnecessary change in the college dining policies. Without consulting CHUL, Dean Fox has presented most Harvard upperclassmen with an undesirable situation--in order to get much more than o.j. and coffee for breakfast, upperclassmen will have to take a hike in the mornings. Rather than being able to tumble out of bed at 9:25, stumble into breakfast at 9:29, and truck up to class at 9:55 with a group of friends in the House, upperclassmen will be obliged to negotiate the locked entrances of unfamiliar Houses...
...steep climb 18 miles southeast of Beirut, the car was blocked by a Pontiac with an Iraqi license plate. Four men machine-gunned Jumblatt, his driver and his bodyguard; all three died almost immediately. The assassins sped away, crashed their car two miles down the road and hijacked a Fiat...
...Failed Fiat. The automen are relieved that they will not have to spend the $600 million that would have been necessary to equip all 1978-model cars with air bags. But they are none too happy about Coleman's request that they put up $48 million of their own money to conduct a demonstration project over the next two years-which they regard as an offer they cannot refuse...
Coleman caustically noted that under a previous chief, his department had ordered the "interlock" system (the engine would not start unless a combination lap-shoulder belt was fastened) on 1974-model autos, but that public anger against this federal fiat caused Congress to repeal the requirement for 1975 models. Coleman argued that a similar Washington mandate concerning air bags would have the same result...
...political connotations cannot be ignored. There is little doubt that Gaddafi, in approaching Fiat, relished the opportunity to buy a piece of international respectability and take a mild slap at Libya's former colonizer, all in one gesture. Should Gaddafi, an activist who is unlikely to be a silent partner, continue to make similar investments, radical Arabs-including terrorists whom Gaddafi finances-could have some power levers to pull. One example: Libya's archrival Egypt makes 12,000 Nasr autos a year under Fiat license; Gaddafi's Fiat connection gives him a new stick to shake...