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...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 will be a lot smaller than the behemoth of today. But GM hopes to accomplish much of the weight reduction by such methods as paring down the thickness of cylinder walls and engine blocks, using more lightweight aluminum and alloys, and expanding the use of front-wheel drive systems, which...
...ship were formally charged with fishing for prohibited species and failing to keep proper records. If found guilty, Gupalov could go to prison for up to one year and be fined as much as $100,000; the ship could be confiscated, along with its gear and its entire 397-ton cargo of frozen fish...
...pilot's 1½-in.-thick windshield. Turbulence tossed the jet wildly, and the rain was so heavy that it was later described as "a wall of water." First the left engine failed, then the right. Fighting for control, Pilot William McKenzie, 54, tried to glide the 25-ton plane to a safe landing...
...suggested that 265.6 million pairs of shoes-the 1974 level of imports-be permitted to enter the U.S. at the current 10% tariff. The duty would be quadrupled to 40% for additional footwear; for color-TV sets, it would be quintupled to 25%; and the annual 7 million-ton sugar quota for imports would be cut by more than one-third. The ITC estimates that if its tariff is adopted for shoes, 5,100 jobs will be saved and an equal number will be created as U.S. firms pick up some of the foreign business...
...conservative fiscal policies, Argentina's foreign reserves have grown in the past year from $23 million to more than $2.3 billion. After a $1 billion deficit in 1975, the country's 1976 balance of payments returned to the black, buoyed by a record 11.2 million-ton wheat harvest. International banks are again offering loans, and an estimated $400 million from foreign accounts held by inflation-wary Argentines has returned to the country...