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Efforts are being made all over to educate bikers about traffic rules and to train motorists in the ways of bikers. In Los Angeles, state and county planners are even contemplating a 2 1/2-mile-long overhead bikeway that would rise above the congested streets around UCLA. But the real culprit on American roads, as conspicuous among cars, cabs and trucks as among cyclists, is an arrogant, scofflaw spirit that sends vehicles -- those with four as well as two wheels -- streaking through red lights and stop signs, just as it tempts pedestrians into habitual jaywalking...
...Texas oil patch may still be in a horrible slump, but the mood in Houston last weekend was anything but downbeat. As fireworks exploded overhead, city officials opened the $175 million George R. Brown Convention Center, an ultramodern red, white and blue facility with enough floor space to cover 20 football fields. The hall, the eighth largest U.S. convention center, can accommodate up to 35,000 conventioneers. It is expected to help revitalize Houston's economy by pumping $300 million into local businesses every year and creating up to 10,000 jobs in the area. Already, 18 conventions, including...
...punter Bill Sansone was able to get his kick away, but a leaping Crimson defender tipped it as it started to fly overhead. The kick wobbled, and bounced crazily out of bounds only six yards past the line of scrimmage...
...battle between the two bases had gone on since early morning. A friend and I drove down late in the afternoon towards the bases as the two government Tora-Tora planes bombed Camp Aguinaldo. Smoke rose up from the camp as the two planes circled overhead and then dove, dropping their bombs...
...still headed down: the 71-year-old company saw its domestic market share drop to 37.5% in July, from 41.1% in 1986. Last year's $2.9 billion earnings were 26% lower than those in 1985. Finally recognizing that its vaunted $40 billion investment in high technology would not reduce overhead as much as had been hoped, GM turned to more direct cost cutting and indefinitely laid off 50,000 hourly workers. The 335,000 union members who remain at GM are convinced that the austerity process is not finished, and that a job-security contract may thus be impossible...