Word: gal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aside from Odd Man Out Anderson, who once again called for a 50?-per-gal. tax on gasoline to cut consumption and chided his rivals for failing to take specific stands, the candidates mostly agreed on the issues. Some of them differed over whether personal income taxes should be indexed to keep Americans from being pushed into higher brackets by inflation and whether the Constitution should be amended to require a balanced federal budget...
...Tories went down to defeat dogged primarily by one issue: a proposed hike of 18? per gal. in gasoline taxes. The gas hike was the key article in the Tory budget that was rejected by Parliament last December-the immediate cause of elections. Said Secretary of State David MacDonald, one of three Clark ministers who lost their Commons seats: "There was a feeling we were administering castor oil; people never take very kindly to castor oil." Newfoundland's John Crosbie, the Finance Minister who conceived the budget, was bitter. Said he: "There has never been an election where...
...south of Los Angeles, 9-ft. waves caused a section of the Pacific Coast Highway to collapse, isolating the wealthy beachfront town of Malibu. Because of a power failure, the Tapia Treatment Plant shut down, causing 15,000 gal. per min. of raw sewage to flow down Malibu Creek to the ocean and forcing officials to close beaches along 25 miles of shore, as far south as Marina Del Rey. In Redondo Beach, harbor officials scuttled the Lady Alexandra, a 225-ft. ship converted into a restaurant and disco. Storm-whipped waves had turned the ship on its side...
...explosion at an Italian chemical plant in 1976, more than 700 people in the town of Seveso were evacuated. Some of them have never been allowed to return to their homes, which are still contaminated. About 350 lbs. of dioxin were contained in the 11 million gal. of the herbicide sprayed on Viet Nam. Dioxin can cause a variety of torments, including a skin disorder called chloracne, liver damage and cancer. In addition, a researcher for the Food and Drug Administration once estimated that dioxin is "100,000 to a million times more potent" than thalidomide in causing birth defects...
...will probably be used to help the poor with their fuel bills; to reimburse $29 million to large customers like utilities and local governments; to forgo $180 million in future price increases that it could have legally imposed; and to reduce gasoline and propane prices by about 2? per gal. Finally, Amoco said it would invest an extra $410 million in domestic oil exploration, production and refining. DOE Special Counsel Paul Bloom explained that such a complicated rebate system was necessary because it was now impossible to locate the millions of customers who had been overcharged a few pennies...