Word: reductionisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Iron Pants. Progress will not be easy. The chill that developed between Washington and Moscow when Jimmy Carter criticized repression of Soviet dissidents deepened in March with Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev's brusque refusal to consider the new Administration's pioneering proposals for a sweeping reduction of nuclear...
The cars will, on average, shed half a ton of weight or more. The typical GM car today weighs 4,200 Ibs.; by 1985 the average will be down to 3,100 Ibs.-320 Ibs. lighter than the company's average 1977 subcompact. Obviously the "large" car of 1985...
What will the transformation cost? GM notes that it spent $1.1 billion to shrink the length and weight of its 1977 models (TIME, Sept. 13) and figures that retooling for the more drastic changes needed by 1985 will cost several times that. The expense, no doubt, will be passed on...
After months of tumult and argument, the Administration's tax-cut bill cleared its final major congressional hurdle last week. But the Tax Reduction Act of 1977 that was approved by House-Senate conferees bears only a passing resemblance to the measure that the White House sent over in...
Though the Administration has been less than eager to point it out, President Carter's abandonment of his plan for $50-a-person tax rebates left him recommending substantially less stimulus for the U.S. economy this year than had the conservative Gerald Ford. Dropping of the rebate, higher-than...