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...been quick to recognize a different, political truism: the fact that many Democratic voters abhor nuclear power. His speeches these days downplay nuclear's role in achieving energy independence, but on paper Tsongas notes that America's 112 nuclear plants produced the energy to cut the U.S. oil-import bill by $4.7 billion in 1989. On the basis of these figures, substituting nuclear power completely for oil imports would require more than 1,000 new nuclear plants. Even that estimate is low, since Tsongas calls for building 300-MW-to-500-MW plants rather than the current...
...wasn't the 626's smart looks that drew attention so much as it was the new automobile's parenthood. The 626 may well become the first U.S. import brand to qualify under Environmental Protection Agency standards as an "American" product. Not only will U.S. workers at Mazda's Flat Rock, Mich., plant assemble the automobile, but 75% of its total content will be American-made...
...American" thus means "Don't Buy Japanese," an appeal that comes dangerously close to racism. Japan is not alone in refusing to buy American cars. Few countries World-Wide import automobiles in significant quantities from the U.S. So why are advertisements so heavily concentrated on Japan? Why is the target of Buy American merely Japan, when most of Europe also shuns American products...
...automobile industry, "voluntary" quotas on the import of foreign vehicles have protected U.S. auto manufacturers from competition, costing consumers tens of billions of dollars and allowing the fossilization of an already stagnant industry to continue...
...days after the bombing of the Beirut Marine barracks, we invaded Grenada, a tiny, tiny island whose exact problems and import to the world are still entirely mysterious. But it was 1983, the economy was recovering, and the fiasco in Lebanon was not that big a problem. A few thousand American troops, a few casualties, one terrible Clint Eastwood movie...