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...police departments and the Registry of Motor Vehicles haven't been provided with measuring devices to check for compliance, according to a report published yesterday in The Boston Globe. And police officers say they aren't sure whether the law applies to cars that were equipped with tinted windows before its Jan. 1 effective date...
World automakers do not rank among big league players until they sell their cars in the U.S., the world's richest auto showroom. Last week South Korea announced its bid for a place in that market. Executives of Hyundai Motor America, a subsidiary of South Korea's largest industrial conglomerate (est. 1984 sales: $10.3 billion), said that they will begin selling cars in the U.S. this fall...
Hyundai is nothing if not ambitious. Max Jamiesson, 51, a former Toyota official who is the new executive vice president of Hyundai Motor America, told participants at the convention of the National Automobile Dealers Assoc. in San Francisco that his goal is to sell 100,000 vehicles in the 1986 model year. That would be less than 1% of the total U.S. market of 10 million vehicles and 4% of all imports vs. about 18% for all Japanese makes. But it would be far more than the 288 cars that Toyota sold in America in 1958, its ) first full year...
...when Congress passed President Reagan's threeyear, 25% tax cut, some 40 states were raising taxes. Income, corporate and motor-fuel taxes in Ohio, for example, went up a staggering 40% to 50%. In 1982, 30 states again raised sales, individual or corporate income taxes. Last year 43 states imposed new tax increases. Lawmakers did so at their political peril. In Michigan, two state senators who supported Governor James Blanchard's 38% income tax increase in 1983 were recalled by irate voters. But while voters balked at the medicine, they appreciated the cure. Michigan's deficit...
Cambridge firefighters responded to the alarm shortly before 6:20 p.m., but found no flames in the elevator shaft. They its the motor cool before allowing accidents to return to the building shortly after 6:30 p.m. No damage or injuries were reported...