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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the concerns about health dangers, "a counter-balancing concern was the perceived need, fueled by Cold War fears, to continue plutonium production because of the relatively small size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal in 1948," the report said...
Soviet and U.S. officials have essentially agreed to reduce their forces in Europe to 275,000 each. But some NATO allies are dragging their feet on peripheral issues. British and French negotiators are wary of any deal that reduces the size of their independent air forces -- so wary, in fact, that some experts predict that aircraft will have to be taken off the table if Bush is to meet his deadline...
...First, the federal gasoline tax should be increased substantially -- to at least 60 cents per gal., from the current 9 cents per gal., over the next four years. At the same time, the Government could begin setting up a program to tax the use of all fossil fuels. The size of the tax should vary according to how much carbon is released into the atmosphere when a particular fuel is burned. That would encourage a shift in consumption patterns away from high-pollution fuels like coal to cleaner ones like natural...
...MORTGAGE CEILING LOWERED, reports the New York Times. "The ceiling on the size of single-family home loans purchased by the Federal National Mortgage Association is declining by $150, to $187,450 next year, the first drop in at least a decade...
Lick 'Em, Stick 'Em by H. Thomas Steele (Abbeville; $19.95). Once upon an envelope (circa 1900 to 1930), posters were reduced to the size of postage stamps. Some were tiny comedies -- a giraffe advertising neckwear, a pig promoting lard -- others dazzling designs by Egon Schiele and Rockwell Kent. They became, says the lively text, "the common man's art gallery," and this homage deserves the same stamp...