Word: auto
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...Environment. Reagan made novel statements about what most threatens clean air; he has cited both trees and Mount St. Helens as wreaking more havoc than auto exhausts, leading to a joke in the Reagan press corps about "the attack of the killer trees." Such nonsense has reduced his credibility in this field. Still, as Governor, he earned respect in California by upholding rigid water-pollution and smog-control laws and by protecting an additional 145,000 acres of park lands from private commercial use. In any clash between energy development and the environment, however, Reagan would be expected to give...
...Republican is a woman, but there ends the major difference between the contestants for the Florida Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Richard Stone. William Gunter, 46, who sank Stone in a primary runoff, has been a strong consumer advocate as state insurance commissioner since 1976. He ordered auto insurance companies to cut their premiums by more than $125 million. Republican Nominee Paula Hawkins, 53, earned a similar reputation as a member of the state's public service commission from 1972 to 1978 by voting against utility rate increases...
...many Italians, the harmonious mood at the auto plant was the first accomplishment of their country's new government, and a possible harbinger of its durability. The Fiat dispute had contributed to the defeat of the outgoing Cabinet led by Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga, which collapsed in September after losing a secret-ballot vote on its economic program. Everyone knew that the strike settlement was related to a four-party political deal that had spawned a new government headed by Christian Democratic Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani. Last week, drawing a comfortable majority of 52 in a parliamentary vote...
...concept worked fine for a while at the 13-month-old Honda motorcycle plant in Marysville, Ohio, where all 200 employees wear the company's white overalls. But on May 16 a maintenance man decided to embellish the standard wardrobe with a United Auto Workers baseball cap. Plant officials promptly made him remove it and issued a flat ban on noncompany hats on the ground that allowing them would impair "the Honda working environment." Union buttons were forbidden too because they might damage production-line paintwork...
They point out that auto plants in Japan are fully unionized and that Japanese assembly plants in other countries are usually organized. Says Marysville Plant Manager Shige Yoshida: "We are not violating any laws or interfering with our associates' rights. We simply want to maintain the quality of the products...