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...reduced air pollution. When she tested the gas. she found that pollution actually increased. Later and independently, the Federal Trade Commission charged that some of the F-310 advertising was false. Cartt meanwhile had brought suit on behalf of all Standard's California customers to recover the extra nickel that each gallon of F-310 cost. A federal judge ruled that the suit could not proceed until she notified each of the 700,000 Standard credit-card holders in the state. That would cost her at least $42,000. and Cartt now reports that her efforts to raise...
...NICKEL RIDE...
...performs remains rather unclear. Director Robert Mulligan (To Kill a Mockingbird, Summer of '42) creates a muffled texture of perennial dusk, and stages some fine set pieces (like a good-humored birthday party that the street citizens give Cooper). But, like Roth, he mistakes obliquity for essence. The Nickel Ride is a film of well-turned surfaces whose terse and moody lines dress up, but do not disguise, a shady frame. This is after all another installment in that sadly ongoing saga of contemporary man fighting to stay alive in a world he helped make but no longer...
...magazine operations: "We thought that all kinds of people were taking potshots at American business and that the American economic system needed to be explained." The series promises to provide a "better understanding of our business system, warts and all." The first installment, entitled "Whatever Happened to the Nickel Candy Bar?" glosses over the current recession but sums up instead the importance of high efficiency in industrial production: "You have, we have, in our hands, in ourselves, the means to produce not just cars and books and songs and bread, but an entire way of life and economic environment second...
...diamonds are not Botswana's only friend. Copper and nickel are now being mined in the eastern part of the country and shipped to the U.S. for refining. The mining machinery will soon be powered by Botswana's coal. Mineralogists have found that perhaps 400 billion tons of coal-almost two-thirds of the proven reserves in all of Europe-lie beneath the country's soil. Additional recent copper and nickel discoveries have been labeled "very promising" by representatives of U.S. Steel, and deposits of manganese, asbestos and gypsum have yet to be developed...