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When Congress last December passed the 5?-per-gal. increase in the gasoline tax, designed to patch the nation's pothole-pocked highway system, it made a deal with the trucking industry. In addition to having to pay more at the pump beginning April 1, truckers found their highway-use taxes and registration fees raised, as of July 1984, from $240 a year to $1,600 for the largest rigs. As a palliative, Congress created rules to permit tandem-trailer trucks, some of them 40 tons in weight when loaded, unprecedented access to the interstate highway system and most...
...such grandiose phraseology serves only to patch together a disorganized hodgepodge of mostly superficial ideas. The book is divided into two sections, Part I. "The Path to Prosperity," outlines Hart's proposals for the economy. Part II, "National Security Today and Tomorrow," details his views on energy and weaponry. Much of what he argues in both sections comes off as a complicated acknowledgement that he has no new solutions. When discussing the current problems with monetary policy, he essentially says that the Federal Reserve should get back on target. On trade policy, he states that he is against protectionism...
This is not to say that Gary Hart does not have some solid, serious ideas buried in his grab-bag of slogans. His tacit acknowledgement that competition in the most effective way to direct resources generous interesting proposals aimed not to subsets the month but to patch up its failures. His blueprint for "Revolving Industrial Vitality" makes a lot of sense--to compile better information for investors, and to alter financial regulations to free up investment finds for businesses, especially small ones, would do much to encourage increased production. His plans for workers, providing elaborate government training and matching programs...
...dangerous wrath of United Nations Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, who has never been that particular group of Central American rebels' most devoted band that calls itself the Dead Kennedys (best known for its rendition of "Kill the Poor"), thereby annihilating the White House's already troubled efforts to patch up relations with the Democratic party...
...Iberia, La., federal agents found nearly 1,200 lbs. of cocaine in two dozen gunny sacks that were supposed to be filled with cattle feed. Near Santa Rosa, N. Mex., duffel bags packed with 200 lbs. of coke were tossed out of a plane onto the wrong patch of scrubland and found by a state policeman. The same thing happened near Ellijay, Ga., when, police gathered up more than 500 lbs. of coke in duffel bags that had been dropped into the wrong valley. And three weeks ago in Dothan, Ala., after a private plane made an emergency landing, police...