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Although the mercury rose slightly at week's end, weathermen predicted a new plunge in temperatures and warned that there was no relief in sight from the harshest winter in recent memory. One almost certain result: a hike in the cost of oil on both sides of the Atlantic as the sudden European demand drives up prices in world markets...
Remarkably few neighbors share the sheriff's straightforward sentiment. Dallas, say his cheerleaders, is not a ruthless killer; rather, he's the last American hero, a vestige of the Old West, a virtual Jeremiah Johnson. In a land of thundering silence and splendid isolation, where a trapper can hike for days without stumbling across another's tracks, this version of the story has grown into a powerful myth. Sure, his fans admit, Dallas killed two men on that terrible day in 1981, but they were just game wardens, the lowly emissaries of flower-fondling environmentalists. Today, in what remains...
...even some supporters of a hike acknowledge that an increased minimum wage would still be disdained by large numbers of jobless young people, who are not inspired by the prospect of flipping hamburgers at a fast-food franchise. "These are dead-end jobs," says Lorna Barnes, an account executive at Chicago's Minority Economic Resources Corporation, which trains and places young people in jobs. Barnes contends that an aggressive job- education and retraining program would have far greater impact than a minimum- wage increase. That seems to be one idea on which left and right can agree: the Reagan Administration...
...bill. Congressional Republicans and the Administration jumped all over him, and fellow Democrats recoiled in dismay, hearing echoes of Walter Mondale's disastrous appeal for a tax increase during the 1984 campaign. Though Wright's proposal would apply only to couples with taxable incomes exceeding $150,000, a tax hike of any kind seemed an impolitic opening gambit...
...million vehicles permitted under their self-imposed quota this year, exceeding last year's 2.2 million -- a formidable achievement, considering that the value of the Japanese yen is more than 20% higher in relation to the U.S. dollar than it was a year ago. The currency hike, experts believe, has added about $1,300 to the average production cost of an imported Japanese car. Even so, industry executives estimate that Japanese compacts and midsize cars still cost roughly $700 less to produce than their American equivalents...