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...firearms is rapidly mounting evidence that the most recent federal gun-control law, passed in 1968, has been an abysmal failure. The proposal was fought so successfully by the National Rifle Association that the eventual law did little more than strengthen bookkeeping requirements for dealers and ban the importing of cheap pistols. Even that ban was undercut by permitting Americans to import the parts for easily assembled "Saturday-night specials," short-barreled, cheaply made weapons that sell for $25 or so and usually fire small-caliber bullets...
...fish on return. Prices fluctuate with competition: the more boats that come in on one day, the less fish is worth per pound. Prices are also affected by how much fish is trucked in from Canada on a given day. Fish that comes in by road is free of import duty; fish that comes in by boat is subject to excise taxes that pay the costs of running the fish pier--unloading the boats and wheeling the fish to the companies with the highest bids...
...confusion and varying interpretations of the Government's complex pricing regulations. But FEA and other federal agencies are also pressing a rapidly widening hunt for possible criminal violations of the oil price controls passed by Congress in November 1973. U.S. Customs Service agents, for example, are poring over import records in 35 U.S. ports, checking for inaccurate or incomplete entries on tanker manifests and invoices by more than 40 companies...
...distorted and unbalanced economy dominated by foreign, largely North American, interests. Immense plantations, owned by American corporations in partnership with the handful of rich Nicaraguans and worked by agricultural workers some of whom earn less than $1 a day, produce coffee, bananas, cotton and beef for the import market. At the same time, peasants working tiny, inefficient plots of land (which often also belong to landlords) struggle to coax enough beans, rice and corn from the soil to feed their families, with perhaps something left over to sell in the local market. With the climbing birth rates, and the continuous...
Inflation has raised the prices of most American cars above those of competing foreign models, and no U.S. automaker can match the gas-mileage claims of some of the imports: 38 m.p.g. for the Volkswagen Rabbit, 39 m.p.g. for the Japanese Honda Civic. Those cars are in the forefront of the import surge, along with Fiat, Datsun, Toyota and British Leyland's Marina. Says Honda's U.S. sales manager, Cliff Schmillen: "There seems to have been a change in people's thinking. It has sunk in that energy shortages and high gasoline prices will be with them...