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...bags of candy in exchange for their signatures on postcards to Ford asking that the company implement the national Sierra Club’s “Freedom Option Package,” a two-page proposal suggesting that manufacturers offer cars equipped with certain technologies designed to increase fuel efficiency...
...latest confrontation was quite deliberate, says a senior Bush aide. For more than two years, the CIA had been collecting shards of information suggesting that North Korea was secretly pursuing nuclear weapons, despite the 1994 Agreed Framework requiring Pyongyang to freeze its program to extract plutonium from reprocessed reactor fuel. (The CIA has long thought that North Korea made--and kept--one or two plutonium-based bombs from before...
...enchanted with the result that he announced he had abandoned his needle and thread for pliers and a blowtorch. The latest use for aluminum is in automobiles. New car designs from Audi and Jaguar use the lighter material instead of steel for body panels that reduce weight and thus fuel consumption. As designers explore other uses, recycled beer can handbags can't be far off. - By Kate Noble ADVERTISING A Naked Bid for Attention Break out the champagne, get out the party lights, strike up the band - the last taboo has finally been broken. Yves Saint Laurent, under creative director...
...said the attack not only allowed Bush to oust the Taliban from power and build a fuel pipeline through Afghanistan to Central Asia, but also to infringe upon Americans’ civil liberties...
...company doesn't comment on legal affairs. Sabena was in trouble for years. Founded in 1923, it flew routes across Europe and within the Congo, Belgium's African colony, and grew rapidly in its late-1940s-and-1950s heyday. Then came the end of the colonial period, the 1970s fuel shocks, labor strife and mounting losses requiring regular government bailouts. By the 1980s Sabena was being lampooned as a bottomless pit. An attempt at restructuring in 1982-83 brought some respite, but in the rapidly changing world of commercial airlines, the carrier was too small, its costs too high. Sabena...