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...designed by computers, which permit three-dimensional views and instant read-outs of technical data. The new cars are most noticeable for their smaller size, cleaner aerodynamic styling and greater interior space. But some of the most dramatic advances are under the hood. The auto industry is on the threshold of an electronic revolution that will make cars run better, cleaner and more reliably through the use of minicomputers. All GM models in 1981 will have what it calls Computer Command Controls, which regulate emissions, engine speed and coolant temperature...
...about the policy seem valid, for there is a fundamental ambivalence involved in counterforce. Explains Lawrence Korb, director of defense studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington: "The irony of this doctrine is that it could make war either more or less probable. The threshold may be easier to go over, but if you do, you may be able to put the genie back in the bottle. It is stoppable, but because it is, it also is more startable...
...Craig Doege, urges Browne's omnipresent You to keep holding out. As all rises in a mightily orchestrated (or engineered) crescendo, the lyric breaks into a prosaic, namby-pamby identification of Browne himself as a hold-out too, wanting to fly. But just as the cyclamates reach the carcinogenic threshold, and Browne declares for the first time in a song, "I love you...," he lets himself and the listener off the hook, waving his true Satyric colors: "Well just look at yourself--what else wouldI...
...relatively high rates so as to expand capacity or hire new workers. General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones predicts that the prime rate will sink to 12% or 13% before investment picks up. Explains Gilbert Heebner, chief economist at the Philadelphia National Bank: "It was like 20% was some magic threshold. Borrowers simply stopped borrowing. Even small independent businessmen like farmers chose to liquidate their crops rather than borrow money...
...between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Thus it was to Washington that other nations were looking for leadership. The Administration was clearly angry. Even Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, whose penchant for using delicate diplomatic language is legendary, sounded stern. Said he: "The Soviet Union clearly crossed a threshold in its action." He warned that "they are going to have to pay a cost as long as their troops stay in Afghanistan. In addition, they are going to have to realize that this kind of action is going to be met by a firm and protracted response so that...