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...subject to no such penalties. More and more motorists are pulling into self-service stations to tank up with the cheaper and peppier leaded fuel, even though doing so ruins their catalytic converters and makes the cars bigger polluters than ever. The EPA fears that decontrolling prices will merely widen the gap between the cost of leaded and unleaded gas and encourage more drivers to skirt the law that requires unleaded in new cars. Says one DOE official about the panoply of contradictory regulations: "There is no doubt that we have really screwed things...
...Haiphong, as well as all of Viet Nam's armed forces, went on alert, and radio stations announced that "self defense" classes were being set up. On the Chinese side, the number of troops on the frontier was increased, and crews moved into border areas to widen roads for the passage of military equipment...
...coerce, students to attain a balanced education. And the Core will not solve one of Harvard's fundamental problems: the dearth of close associations between students and Faculty members. Instead, by setting up huge introductory courses as the bases of an already-suspect Harvard education, the Core will only widen the gulf between students and Faculty members. A Harvard education could easily be reduced to instruction by busy, underpaid graduate students who are more interested in pleasing their doctoral advisers than accommodating the students in their classes and sections...
Delays in obtaining permits from the city of Cambridge for tree-trimming, removing parking meters and taking other measures necessary to widen the Quincy St. path the truck will take postponed the move, earlier scheduled for the beginning of May, Leahy said...
...this is by no means the most important area of conflict. The real conflict arises out of the churches' reassessment of their participation in national development. Since the early '70s, the churches have grown increasingly critical of patterns of development that only widen the gap between rich and poor within African countries...