Word: making
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prime Minister has announced proposals for sweeping reforms of the racial-classification laws known as petty apartheid. Besides authorizing companies to negotiate with black unions, Botha has proposed the "improvement" of statutes that forbid interracial sex and marriage and make certain public facilities off limits to blacks. While these contemplated steps have won the applause of business leaders, they have not done much as yet to satisfy the 20 million blacks. There has been no change in the white minority government's long-range plan of dividing South Africa into a "constellation" of nominally independent states, in which blacks...
...would result from a 50? per gal. tax would pay important dividends both domestically and internationally. In the U.S. it would amount to an immediate and forceful warning to all Americans that energy conservation is now a national imperative. Overseas it would help loosen the world market for petroleum, make it at least somewhat more difficult for OPEC to raise prices, reduce prices on the spot market and send a signal to the U.S.'s increasingly skeptical allies that the nation is exercising leadership to curb energy use. Even with a 50? tax, Americans would still have a comparatively...
...sister agency, the Securities and Exchange Commission. Bloom had the power to negotiate settlements, and he modeled them after the SEC's consent decrees. Companies that sign them with the DOE neither admit nor deny wrongdoing, but agree to stop what they have been doing and make a financial settlement...
...fact, the aerospace industry is the U.S.'s second largest exporter (after agriculture), and sales of commercial jets and spare parts make up $5 billion of the industry's $9 billion contribution to the U.S. balance of payments. Until the mid-70s, U.S. planemakers had about 80% of the commercial market in the non-Communist world. But the technological success of the Anglo-French Concorde convinced Europeans that they could become powers in mass-transport aircraft competition. The Airbus consortium of West Germany, France, Britain, Spain, The Netherlands and Belgium rolled out the economical A300 and smaller, more...
Under the bubble plan, a company can cut a lot of pollution from sources that are easy and cheap to control, but let out more discharges from sources that are hard and costly to curb. Plants in the same neighborhood can form a bubble and make the accepted trades among themselves. However, a firm cannot trade off the emission of a relatively harmless pollutant for a carcinogenic or otherwise hazardous substance...