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Financially, it is more attractive to build cars in the U.S. than to import them from West Germany; because of the high wages and constantly climbing value of the German mark relative to the dollar, the total hourly labor costs amount to about $13.60 in Germany, vs. only $9 at the Pennsylvania factory...
...once news of the mass resignations in the President's official family broke Tuesday afternoon, talk of import quotas, synthetic fuels and energy independence was drowned out by a new buzz of puzzled speculation. Early in the week congressional Democrats were talking about whooping through key parts of the President's program, including the windfall-profits tax on oil companies that is supposed to provide all the money for Carter's plans, before the legislators recess on Aug. 3 for four weeks. But by week's end they were making plain that Carter, and the nation...
Nearly all of the President's other plans are targeted on the year 1990. The goal for then is ambitious: to reduce imports by 4.5 million bbl. a day below present levels by a combination of production and conservation measures. Among the main proposals, ranked by estimated import savings...
WITH THEIR MORE commercial style, today's Kinks are undoubtedly reaching more people, but what they're bringing is not the wonderful old tongue-in-cheek satire Davies specialized in. Instead, these songs are filled with trite statements of no great import--things like...
...Import quotas, effective immediately, flatly prohibiting the landing of more than 8.5 million bbl. per day?slightly more than now. That would fulfill a pledge Carter made at the Tokyo summit not to increase imports...