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...convertible production had dropped to 50,000 a year. The ragtops were done in by efficient auto air conditioning, hardtop styling and vinyl roofs that gave cars a convertible look at much less cost, other snazzy top variations like the sunroof, and rising crime. Vandals could easily slash a soft top, break in and make off with the vehicle or any prized part thereof...
...production quotas that would keep the cost of oil from tumbling uncontrollably. Over the previous weekend Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf neighbors had issued an ultimatum to the rest of OPEC: unless a deal was struck within seven days, the gulf nations said, they would slash their oil prices to as low as $27 per bbl., $7 below the official OPEC price of $34. Such a move could trigger an all-out price war that would threaten OPEC's survival...
With half its workers laid off, the union okays a pay slash...
...narrator Cecelia (Micol Guidelli) was a little girl in a flower print dress, and the Germany were slowly retreating through the fields of Tuscany under the onslaught of the Allies. The town of San Martino has been marked for mining by the Germans--each house crucified with a fatal slash of green paint--and the inhabitants have been ordered to gather in the Cathedral while their tiny community is to be blown up. A group of men, women, and children, under the leadership of the grizzled elder Galvano (Omero Antonutti), decide to break away from the huddled, frightened villagers...
...most likely--and frightening--explanation is that Burford is trying to dismantle the EPA. Her plan to slash federal support of state pollution-control efforts and to cut federal programs by up to 55 percent reveals her hostility to a nationally run system. Her adherence to Reagan's New Federalism is hardly surprising, but her inefficacy underlines the problems inherent in that philosophy...