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...ahead and let all these American engineers take a look at nearly whatever they wanted to in our light-truck plants." Now the Japanese are pushing to improve sales through low prices. Though they face a 25% import duty imposed in 1980, they are unfettered by the quotas that restrict the number of cars they can export to the U.S. A Mazda Sundowner B-2000 can be bought for $5,795. The lowest-cost American-made pickup is the Chevrolet...
According to Roberts, the concern of the task force is to limit the financial scale of the organ transplant business. The committee recommends a "no new facilities" policy in which the state would use the institutions, the hospitals, to restrict the number of operations performed. "Creating a limited capacity," in which "access [is] a function of medical condition" not of ability to pay, is the solution. Such restrictions would also ensure that other state-funded programs are not strangled by high costs of transplants...
...latest attempt by the City of Cambridge to eliminate or restrict nerve gas testing, the City Council last night moved toward a new zoning ordinance which would prohibit the manufacture, testing and storage of nerve...
...necessarily translate into real gains in political clout or actual enforcement--a gap that threatens to turn the target communities into experimental guinea pigs, instead of the puzzle pieces that the Coalition wants to eventually fit into an overall plan. Given that the Coalition could persuade communities to restrict or ban handguns, they will be most valuable as test cases, both for the purposes of the activists, and for the understanding of the handgun problems. The results of such piecemeal bans may not support the goals of control advocates, but could shed light on the peculiarly American phenomenon of civilian...
...most serious threat to Asian growth is what Yoshino called "the ugly problem of trade frictions." As their imports have mounted, Western nations have persuaded Japan and other countries to accept "voluntary" limits on exports. The U.S. has curbed imports of cars and steel and tightened rules that restrict the entry of textiles...