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...more than 1,000 other agencies have adopted Cap-Stun, which is distributed by Luckey Police Products of Fort Lauderdale. Sizes range from the 2-gal. container for riot use to the personal 1/2-oz. canister (price: $9.95). Gardner Whitcomb, 68, started the company with his wife 13 years ago, and has pushed Cap-Stun ever since as a safe substitute for mace. Whitcomb expects sales to quadruple this year, to $1 million...
...insiders are as popular as cockroaches. The state is in a fiscal mess because of people like Bellotti and Murphy, he argues, and it needs him to slash about $1 billion in fat, reform the education system, create prison schools at abandoned military bases and add 12 cents per gal. to the state gasoline tax to trigger new jobs through business activity and tourism...
...possibly. The fact is, Californians approached Proposition 111 with trepidation, even though the state's 9 cents-per-gal. gas tax, last increased in 1983, is one of the lowest in the country. (The national average is 15.8 cents.) No wonder then that California ranks 48th among the 50 states in per capita spending for highways -- with predictable results. In a motor-happy state, the highways are crumbling and inadequate...
...just 16% of its daily needs. That would be enough to keep bakeries, meat-processing plants and other essential factories running but would bring most industries "to their knees." Meanwhile, oil shipments had been completely cut off. Though Lithuanian authorities immediately declared that each car could receive only 8 gal. of gas a month, the supply was not expected to last for more than two weeks. Lithuanians could also expect shortages of rubber for making cables and sneakers, sodium for soap powder and television screens, and sugar for candies and confections. Concluded Brazauskas: "We need new political decisions...
...pain quickly became apparent at gas stations, where cars often waited 60 and 70 in line to buy their last 2 1/2 gal. before the stricter rationing rules took effect. Otherwise, there was a strange sense of unreality at the front line of Moscow's economic war. Vilnius residents, many of them following the parliamentary debate over transistor radios, took advantage of a brilliant spring day to stroll Gediminas Boulevard and look into shopwindows that even in the worst of times have been better supplied than Moscow's. There were no signs of hoarding or panic buying. Said a youthful...