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...some of the bill's pricing proposals will inhibit drilling. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is concerned about the entire program, saying that it would eliminate a million jobs, cause a 2% drop in the nation's output of goods and services, boost inflation by 2.7% and shrink business investment...
After 20 hours of tortured debate, the house voted 162 to 52 to shrink itself by one-third. The senate is expected to give final approval to the bill this week, and Governor Michael Dukakis to sign it into law soon thereafter...
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 to buyers, raising another question: will they accept higher prices for shorter, lighter, less powerful, slower-starting cars? One possible clue is the renewed popularity of imported cars, which took 20% of the U.S. market in April. Foreign car makers are far ahead of Detroit in the technology of fuel...
...film does not shrink from portraying the natives as largely a benighted, scruffy lot who are driven to practicing their own reciprocal racism. Two uncomprehending priests, being borne in divans by sweating natives, are charmed by a work song that actually says, "My white man is fat as a bull and his feet stink...
...uneasy déja vu. The most discomforting is his reflexive, contrived smile, flashed?when he is under harsh attack. Sometimes his face freezes impassively, his eyelids fluttering. He stutters a bit under stress, and his syntax breaks down. At certain moments his lips shut tight, his mouth seems to shrink...