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Executives at all the auto companies predict that they will meet or exceed the CAFE requirements for this year, although GM and Ford at present are about one-tenth of a mile per gallon off target. They argue, however, that it will be tough to meet future standards, starting from next year's 20 m.p.g. all the way up to the eventual 27.5 m.p.g. demanded by 1985. In this competition, GM will have an important advantage. Because it has more money and management depth, it can more easily meet the standards...
...stakes can be steep: for each one-tenth of a gallon that its fleet falls below the required 19 m.p.g. average, a company must pay a federal fine of $5 for every car it sells. Since GM sells around 5 million autos annually, a shortfall of one-tenth of a gallon could result in a fine of $25 million...
...program could have even one-tenth the effect it seems to be having in reducing the recidivism rate of our prisons, it would be a significant contribution. It is time we explored the alternatives to thelock-'em-up-and-throw-away-the-key rhetoric of too many politicians, if only because keys are cheap but the cost of maintaining the rest of the operation will soon be prohibitive...
...That is just Harvard's way of saying that they oppose the plan," Silber said last night. "If I had one-tenth of the college endowment in the U.S., I wouldn't want someone limiting my tuition charges either. Harvard's huge endowment disqualifies them from the discussion," he added...
...manganese level in the water in one-tenth on a part per million, about ten times the level earlier this summer and double the state standard of one-twentieth of a part per million, Seites said...