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When Richard Nixon signed into law the Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act in 1974, it seemed to be one of those rare, unimpeachably wise legislative acts: the measure made 55 m.p.h. the national speed limit. Since automobiles operate more efficiently and far more safely at 55 than at higher speeds, the limit has in seven years saved more than 20 billion gal. of gasoline and as many as 60,000 lives...
...might buy two or three smaller companies based in North America that have foreign operations. This time around, however, he is more likely to try for a friendly takeover than risk a pre-emptive bid of the St. Joe variety. Some Wall Street analysts believe Seagram would be wise to use its money to buy a consumer products company like Gillette or Colgate-Palmolive, which would make the best use of its marketing experience...
...OPPOSING FACTIONS in Theda R. Skocpol's grievance against the Sociology Department agree that Dean Rosovsky made a wise decision in advancing her case to the next step in the tenure process, and we concur. Rosovsky was right to accept the unanimous judgment of the three-member Faculty committee investigation the 33-year-old associate professor of Sociology's charges...
...princess's perks remain mightily seductive, however, to a popular imagination fueled on storybooks full of wise kings and gentle queens and tall palaces. One knows Lady Diana read some of those same fairy tales, as certainly as one knows that, when they look to be coming true on July 29, she will continue to shine and star. Always, of course, within the bounds of what is seemly; the consort's luster must not dim the King. Eventually, as Queen, Lady Diana will wear a crown with the 109-carat Kohinoor diamond as its centerpiece. This royal geegaw...
Tsongas praised the Carter administration's policy concerning South Africa, saying, "our support of majority rule is a politically wise decision...