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...rule in question, issued in 1977 by the NHTSA under the Carter Administration, required the installation of automatic crash-protection gear starting with large-and medium-size automobiles as of this autumn. Not long after Ronald Reagan took office, NHTSA Administrator Raymond Peck postponed that deadline for a year, claiming that the Government needed more time to study the regulation. In addition, the agency was concerned about the auto industry's deepening financial troubles and was eager to help give automakers at least some relief from the added design and manufacturing costs that would have resulted from installing...
...move was promptly attacked by a coalition of outraged insurance companies and various consumer groups, which petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington to overturn the action taken by Peck and the NHTSA. The coalition told the court that passive restraints could save some 9,000 lives a year on the nation's roads and highways...
Trend setters Comfortable with the opposite sex and partial to high fashion, the ranking socialities insist on an appearance of casualness while they grind it out just like the rest of them. They shake hands and peck cheeks with studied grace. Sometimes sleep together, and always talk about it within earshot of their elders...
...possible start, one of the islands' heroes and their most energetic councilor, Terry Peck, called his own town meeting this week in the local gym, the first since the ending of the Falklands war. Although it lasted for two hours, most of the 100 townspeople who turned out were silent as proposals were offered for increasing the islanders' local legislative control; allowing residents to buy land from the Falkland Islands Co., which controls 46% of the region; and having a greater say over the teachers and contract workers sent out from Britain. Indeed, the evening revealed long-simmering...
There was unanimous applause, however, when Peck resolved that "we have no more to do, ever, with the Argentines." Wearing a monogrammed E.R. on his dark blue blazer, he finally appealed, "I'm disappointed at the turnout and disappointed you don't have more to offer about our future. I want to get some punch into these islands...