Word: driving
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...assessments on cities and towns by more than 4% over the previous year. The bill for the MBTA deficit pushed the increase to between 9% and 17%. Citizens for Limited Taxation, proponents of 2½, promptly pressured the legislature to rescind the rescue provisions, and is preparing a petition drive to eliminate future assessments...
...Rita Schwinghamer saw a newspaper story announcing that the town would be sold at auction the following day by its owners, a family of local ranchers. "We thought it would be a good idea to buy," says Rita. They did not have time to visit Navajo, a 250-mile drive from Phoenix, but did look it up on a map. Their bid of $615,000 was the best submitted by eleven prospective buyers, including a Baltimore nightclub owner who wanted to turn the town into a haven for retired strippers...
...Chrysler itself will cut operating expenditures by reducing its white-collar payroll by another 2,200 people, to 21,800. The company will also scrap plans to enlarge its front-wheel-drive production capacity for 1984. Iacocca said that these measures alone would cut costs next year by $575 million...
...charge against a co-conspirator in the case, L. Patrick Gray III, acting FBI director from May 1972 to April 1973, and also ended a five-year probe aimed at scores of FBI men suspected of abusing their power. That effort grew out of the bureau's drive to track down the 30 or more known members of the Weather Underground, a left-wing group responsible for dozens of Viet Nam-era bombings. A New York City-based FBI unit called Squad 47 broke into the homes of innocent relatives and friends of the fugitive radicals seeking clues...
...however, that Americans will turn to pure alcohol in place of gasoline. The U.S. does not have a surplus production of sugar. Corn, the U.S.'s most plentiful crop, contains far less potential energy per ton than sugar. Moreover, any large boost in alcohol production from corn might drive up already surging domestic food prices...