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...basically desirable by society. The manufacturers' typical rejoinder to any new standard was "Technologically it cannot be done," or "It can be accomplished on a limited basis, but not for mass production." Today the automen are more cooperative, but they have difficulty getting a fair hearing from the public or Congress, both of which often discount their arguments in advance. Admits Estes: "We've got a serious problem with our credibility." Thus the regulators have felt free to override industry objections to bloated costs and the unnecessary risk of rushing into unproven technologies that...
...determine what the cars of the future will be. There just isn't anyone around who can compete effectively. Between them they will divide up two-thirds of the world market and leave the remaining third for the rest." In the meantime, ready or not, the auto-buying public can sit back and enjoy one of the most tumultuous periods of change since the car replaced the horse...
When Congress formed Amtrak in 1971, the idea was that a national passenger rail service would make money. But the federally supported rail system has been a steady loser and a growing drain on the public purse. The Government subsidy in 1978 reached $578 million, or about $2 in taxpayers' funds for every $1 taken in fares. Last week the Senate Commerce Committee began hearings to decide just what to do about...
...creating a rule of law will be difficult for a country that has had virtually no formal legal system for almost two decades. After they came to power in 1949, the Communists issued some Soviet-style statutes, but the system withered away during the Cultural Revolution. Public trials were few and mainly for show; lawyers were almost nonexistent, and judges were largely untrained hi the law. In the late '60s the Peking People's Daily ran an editorial titled "In Praise of Lawlessness," condemning law as a bourgeois restraint on the revolutionary masses...
...Communist Party, at once seeking to improve public morale with fair laws and to maintain its total control, is left awkwardly balanced. Explains another deputy director of the Law Institute, Li Pu-yun: "Everyone in China, including party members, is under the law. But at the same time we don't think the law should be almighty." The compromise may be less than satisfactory, but still it is an improvement over the "lawlessness" Peking praised only a decade...