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Meanwhile, like electrons to a cathode, a raft of smaller companies and entrepreneurs are being attracted to the EV market. Sir Jon Samuel, a transplanted Briton, has set up Electric Auto Corp. in Troy, Mich., to produce the Silver Volt, scheduled for production next year at a cost to buyers of $16,000 each. The car runs on fast-charge, lead-acid batteries, but has a small rotary gasoline engine to boost power for passing and to rescue drivers from battery failure. Jet Industries of Austin, Texas, takes Ford, Chrysler and Fuji cars and trucks from the factory, installs lead...
...everybody was thrown back against a wall," said Olav Skotheim, 41, one of the survivors, who was in the movie theater at the time. "There were about 60 of us in there. We all started scrambling for the exits as the lights went out." Also in the theater was Briton Tony Silvester, 31, who described the scene as one of "complete chaos, with oxygen bottles flying all over the place. Nobody knew what to do. Suddenly she toppled over and I was thrown into the sea." Both men swam to safety. Less fortunate were some 50 others who were believed...
...kinds were slashed. No sector of the British economy was untouched. To raise revenues, North Sea oil taxes were hiked 10% for oil companies, adding to the $1.1 billion already gushing into the treasury's coffers as high-grade crude comes fully onstream. Alas for the ordinary Briton, new excise taxes raised the price of his beloved beer (to 95? a pint from 91?) as well as those of wine, whisky, cigarettes, automobiles and gasoline, which costs $2.42 per gal., up from...
...been killed, captured or wounded," he answered. When a British correspondent tried to ask a question, Karmal boorishly denounced him as a representative of British imperialism. "You invaded us three times and you got a rightful and deserved answer from the people of Afghanistan," he growled at the Briton, to the approving guffaws of Soviet embassy diplomats. No Western correspondent bothered to remind them that back in Moscow, readers of the Soviet press would have had a hard time figuring out that there were any Russian troops in Afghanistan...
...nine-to-fivers as a conspiratorial wink indicating that show people may be glamorous, but they are not to be taken seriously Tynan, the great appreciator of rare abilities, can explain the aggressive surrealism of Mel Brooks' ethnic humor, but it does not quite appear to be the Briton's cup of tea. There is a hint of distance in the title of the Brooks piece...