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Twenty-four hours a day, the drivers jockey hundreds of big rigs-reefers, dry boxes and flatbeds-in and out of the world's largest and most complete truck stop. Transport City is a 51-acre, $7 million complex that is still growing in the outskirts of Atlanta, just off Interstate 285. It smells of diesel fuel and looks like a giant J.C. Penney complex, but it is the nearest thing to trucker's heaven yet invented. In it, tired truckers by the hundreds can fill up their 150-gal. tanks, take saunas, wash their clothes, grab...
...Lowered U.S. barriers to Mexican agricultural products and manufactured goods. Mexico already is the fourth largest U.S. trading partner and wants to sell even more to the north. U.S. restrictions on winter vegetables, which fluctuate according to domestic harvests, are a particular sore point. But any changes in U.S. trade policies would be opposed by U.S. unions and, in the case of winter vegetables, by farmers in California and the South. Moreover, U.S. businessmen would demand that Mexico reciprocate by lowering its trade barriers...
...West's salad days, as Florida's largest (18,000 inhabitants) and wealthiest city, were just before the turn of the 20th century. It had the largest port in the Gulf of Mexico, its cigar industry employed 10,000 workers, and almost all of the country's sponges were caught by its fleet. Then came a spectacular decline. The U.S. naval station closed, the cigar industry was lured to Tampa, blight wiped out the sponge beds, the city went bankrupt, and a 1935 hurricane ruined the railway from the mainland. Except for a momentary revival during World...
...Defense Department that upwards of $7 billion in military sales contracts with Iran had been canceled by mutual agreement as a result of the continuing strife in the country and spreading Iranian hostility to U.S. weapons sales. The disclosure, which affects some of the nation's largest defense suppliers, including General Dynamics, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, Litton Industries and Textron's Bell Helicopter division, was shock enough. But even as businessmen wondered if additional deals were about to collapse, Energy Secretary James Schlesinger brought up an even gloomier subject: the increasing chances for an outright oil shortage. He warned...
...predicted at the end of Vietnam has not come about. The feeling that the Americans will control events in fine detail has certainly changed. But if you start with our interests in East Asia, I would argue the most important interest is our relationship with Japan--the third largest economy in the world. I would say the American-Japanese between the Soviets and the Japanese is something worth noticing here. I think our relationship with Japan, in fact, has not been weakened in the post-Vietnam period but is probably somewhat enhanced. In that sense, we're not doing that...