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...OPEC-induced oil price shocks, Congress passed a law that required U.S. automakers to build more fuel-efficient cars. By the close of the 1985 model year, said the 1975 Energy Policy and Conservation Act, cars should average 27.5 m.p.g., vs. the gas-guzzling 14 m.p.g. that was the norm when the law was passed. Now the September deadline looms, and only Chrysler's fleet can meet the standard. Ford's cars will average 25.9 m.p.g., GM's 25.1. Technically, the two largest carmakers could face fines of up to $400 million in the case of GM and $80 million...
...Lowell House became the norm for those buildings to be judged, then all the rest can crumble and fall apart," said Thomas M. Brown who compared the interior of Crimson Hall--where he is staying--to Walpole prison...
Welcome to the great American two-career family and pass the aspirin, please. Dual paychecks, the norm in U.S. marriages today, may provide a better standard of living, but for a large number of couples they also contribute to twin headaches. Many family counselors say their practices are now largely devoted to couples who cannot reconcile three often conflicting demands: his job, her job and their relationship. Says Patricia Kennedy, a psychologist in New York: "Marriage, or even living together, has become every bit as much a business merger as it is an emotional commitment." Says Donald Bloch, director...
...headquarters in New York City and branch offices in four other cities. Owen recounts that the Princeton Review and a few similar services, working from computer analysis of existing SATs, can boost students' SAT scores an average of 185 points (a perfect SAT mark is 1600; the national norm is 897, or 471 on mathematics and 426 on verbal skills). Katzman's top students, writes Owen, show average gains of 250 points. In singling out the Princeton Review, Owen gives scant attention to longer-established coaching services, like the 47-year-old Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Center, based...
Another COCA spokesman, Eva Harris '87, observed that the current political climate may make multi-issue protests the norm. "Unfortunately, is these conservative days, I don't know if there would be enough people for just one cause," she said...