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Last year's peppier bond sales still ran far below the $7.8 billion pace of 1978. Nonetheless, Treasury officials are convinced that the savings bond is on its way back to being a blue-chip investment and a superb stocking stuffer...
Most of the troupe want peppier times. Says Soloist Victor Barbee: "Misha has proved that if he wants something he can get it. In maintaining the difficult line between the business and artistic sides of A.B.T., Misha won't give up quickly...
...that although gas stations can be fined up to $10,000 for putting leaded gas into cars suited for only unleaded grades, the drivers themselves are subject to no such penalties. More and more motorists are pulling into self-service stations to tank up with the cheaper and peppier leaded fuel, even though doing so ruins their catalytic converters and makes the cars bigger polluters than ever. The EPA fears that decontrolling prices will merely widen the gap between the cost of leaded and unleaded gas and encourage more drivers to skirt the law that requires unleaded in new cars...
Suddenly, a rumbling, thunderous crash rolled across the construction site, accompanied by screams. "The first thing I heard was concrete falling," said John Peppier, 38, a laborer who was working at the base of the tower. "I looked over my left shoulder and I could see the scaffolding falling. Then I could see people falling. Then, everything falling...
...would-be motorist, problems can begin as soon as he decides he wants a car. The cheapest model, the Zaporozhets, a tinny little machine with a top speed of 55 m.p.h., sells for $5,140. The popular and somewhat peppier Zhiguli (top speed: 76 m.p.h.), a Soviet-built version of a Fiat 124, sells for $7,850-not too much above the price of an average U.S. 1978 model, but three times the average annual Soviet wage. About a third of Soviet auto production is for export, largely in the form of a version of the Zhiguli named the Lada...