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...clearly chose Washington for the unveiling to impress Government policymakers. They have doubted that Detroit could respond quickly to public clamor for low-cost transportation, but the Chevette was rushed into production in just 18 months. It will go on sale next month, with the initial marketing effort in cities that have been strongholds for Datsun (now the No. 1 selling import) and Volkswagen. GM's main target city: Los Angeles, where 49% of all new cars sold in August were built overseas. During the next twelve months, GM hopes to sell about 275,000 Chevettes, enough to help...
...proven reserves by the 1980s, when other forms of gas, notably illogically named synthetic natural gas (which is manufactured from coal) and imported liquefied natural gas could supplement the real stuff, though at a very high cost. For the U.S., the cold reality is that the era of plentiful low-cost natural gas is ending quite as painfully as did the bygone age of cheap, abundant...
...practices that prop up prices for the benefit of special interests. Economists at President Ford's September summit meetings spotlighted 32 such rigidities. Among them: the Davis-Bacon Act, which compels contractors to pay inflationary wages on federally assisted construction projects; the Jones Act, which forbids shippers to use low-cost foreign vessels to move goods from one U.S. port to another; misnamed fair-trade laws that permit manufacturers to prevent retailers from cutting prices on brand-name products; agricultural "marketing orders" that restrict the supply of oranges, tomatoes and other products; and freight, regulations that force many trucks...
LEGAL SERVICES. Old people in need of legal services to protect their rights to housing, Social Security or medical benefits, safeguard their assets and guard against exploitation by the unscrupulous, can usually obtain them through local legal-aid societies, which provide free or low-cost legal guidance. More specialized help is available from the National Council of Senior Citizens, which has its headquarters in Washington, and local Gray Panthers' organizations...
...time faculty from 2,200 to 1,965. This year the deficit is down to $3 million, but N.Y.U. still faces the long-term problems of other private universities. Tuition will be $3,300 next fall; yet the school must compete with the tuition-free City University and the low-cost State University of New York...