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Automakers also are being helped by renewed customer interest in larger cars, on which they make more money, spurred partly by the weakening in gasoline prices as the OPEC cartel loses its grip. Rust also is Detroit's friend: more and more cars in the U.S. auto fleet are older ones (average age: seven years) and will need to be replaced sooner or later. This year will not be a great one for Detroit. But at last there seems to be cause for believing that good times, if not around the next bend, could be around the one after...
...That big old mahogany armchair is practically antique, but it still works. First used in 1890, it is the world's oldest and most prodigious electric chair: 695 convicted men and women died in its grip, nearly one a month for the better part of a century. For most of those years it was housed at Sing Sing, contributing to that place's hellhole notoriety. Now it squats on the fourth floor of Green Haven prison in New York...
THOSE SAME LEGISLATORS, however, can act to release money's grip on them. A first step would be to act on an election financing bill sponsored by Congressman David Obey (D-Wis.) and Thomas Railsoack (R-III.). This proposal would limit the total amount a Congressional candidate could receive from a PAC to $70,000 and limit individual contributions a PAC could give to $3000. The legislation would limit to some degree the impact of individual PACs, by preventing them from contributing to as many legislators and therefore dominating whole committees or forming voting blocs. This would be a good...
...callow, rigorous hero, 39 R.S.C. actors played 150 parts; they set the scene and moved the scenery; they patrolled the rafters and eavesdropped on intimacies. Everywhere in this complex living organism a sense of theatrical community was affirmed, with a dazzling display of stagecraft that never relaxed its grip on the intelligent heart...
...year 1982 was filled with notable events around the globe. It was a year in which death finally pried loose Leonid Brezhnev's frozen grip on the Soviet Union, and Yuri Andropov, the cold-eyed ex-chief of the KGB, took command. It was a year in which Israel's truculent Prime Minister Menachem Begin completely redrew the power map of the Middle East by invading neighboring Lebanon and smashing the Palestinian guerrilla forces there. The military campaign was a success, but all the world looked with dismay at the thunder of Israeli bombs on Beirut's civilians...