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...launched in March, a pointed dig at newly arrived Japanese rivals in the luxury market. But the S-class dream car has collided with the no-kidding-around standards of the German government, which require car companies to declare the "gross weight" of their models in actual use. Auto Motor und Sport, an industry magazine based in Stuttgart, pointed out that when a Mercedes 300SE is loaded with such hefty but popular options as air-conditioning and an automatic transmission, only 576 lbs. worth of frills like passengers and their luggage brings the car up to its registered gross weight...
Document specialists obtain clean driver's licenses and car registrations. In 1989 the FBI and New York City prosecutors cracked a scheme in which employees of the state Department of Motor Vehicles were taking bribes of $100 to write phony registration papers. Hundreds of falsely documented cartel vehicles, fitted with hidden compartments, moved drugs north from Mexico and returned south with cash...
...alarms started out as luxury items and boomed in popularity about 1970. Since then, car thefts have nearly doubled. In 1989, 1,564,800 motor vehicles were stolen in the U.S., up 9.2% from 1988 and 42% over 1985. Would the losses be even greater if car alarms did not exist? No one knows. Police generally side with car alarms. Having one, after all, can't hurt, might help. An amateur thief might be scared off; a professional, however, knows how to disarm the system quickly...
...four lawsuits, 16 hearings and six mile-long protest marches, the 400-strong Mothers of East L.A. passed around cookies to celebrate a major victory: cancellation of a proposed commercial incinerator they claimed could spew cancer-causing particles over the community by burning 22,500 tons of used motor oil and industrial sludge annually. Citing "political pressure" and the prospect of "interminable litigation," attorneys for Security Environmental Systems, which was to build the facility, ruefully announced "abandonment" of the project...
...working very well from both Harvard's and the city's points of view," he says. "The removal of the Quality Motor Inn from the tax roll [in May] set a good example of how the system will work, as it will continue to be taxed for the next 10 years...