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...will take some doing. The Steelers, Art Rooney Jr. said last week, "are like the great Yankee teams used to be. The peer pressure is very strong. Just putting on the uniform motivates a player to perform beyond his potential." At week's end, the Steelers were 11-point favorites to keep right on winning...
Tariffs: The boldest move was to reduce tariffs, which had ranged from 100% to 1,000%, to a more uniform 10%, forcing Chilean industry to become competitive almost overnight. Now Chile is shipping refrigerators to Argentina, shoes to Peru and logs to Japan. In the process, the country is transforming itself from a "monoproduct" economy into one in which noncopper goods are now 51% of exports. Forests are being planted with high-yield pine trees; U.S. authorities estimate that by 1990 forest products could become as important as copper to the economy...
...members did just that. But after the most fractious meeting in OPEC's history-it was a "bazaar" in the scoffing description of Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister, Ahmed Zaki Yamani-the cartel failed to agree on any uniform price. Instead, each country will fix the cost of its crude. The cartel also failed to set limits on production, as some of its hawks sorely want to do. In fact, the divisions were sharp enough to raise questions about the future of OPEC. While its members' separate price rises will cause immediate pain to the rest...
Pentagon spirit is on the rise. Marine Lieut. Colonel Arthur Brill walked into a bar in Manhattan's Grand Central Station, and the bartender, spotting his uniform, announced: "The first drink is on me." Brill was flabbergasted. That had not happened to him for years. "I'd like to see Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden take their tour today," he mused. Many more television programs and movies are being submitted to the armed services for consultation and technical advice. Marines are going to be good guys again on film. Says one officer: "We have learned there are some...
Massachusetts is the last state to implement the law. The federal government pushed the law through to make a uniform motor vehicle code, and the government threatened to withhold the state's national energy funds if the state did not pass the bill...