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Unlike most other countries with modern, high-speed motorways, West Germany allows drivers to zip along as fast as they choose on more than 5,000 miles of autobahn. So when the Bonn government earlier this year suggested that a nationwide limit of 62 m.p.h. (100 k.p.h.) was a possibility, the outcry was long and loud. Now the danger appears to have passed. In the face of noisy protests, the Cabinet of Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week voted to keep the autobahn free and fast...
...move followed publication of an official study concluding that slower speeds would do little to cut fuel consumption or air pollution. The latter point was especially sensitive. More than half of West Germany's forests are diseased or dying, largely be cause of poisonous emissions from factories and motor vehicles. Still, there is some hope for the trees. Government officials are discussing an 81 m.p.h. (130 k.p.h.) limit as one that their speed-loving countrymen might accept. With good reason: the Brussels-based European Commission may soon propose a European Community-wide limit, which West Germany would be under considerable...
...responsibility for a death occurring as a result of a dangerous felony, in this case the supplying of narcotics. She was indicted after giving an interview to the National Enquirer in which she reportedly told of repeatedly injecting the comedian with a heroin-and-cocaine mixture known as a "speed-ball." The Enquirer quoted Smith as saying, "I killed John Belushi. I didn't mean to, but I am responsible." Said L.A. Deputy District Attorney Elden Fox: "She sold the story for $15,000, confessing to committing 14 felonies in the state of California." Failure to charge Smith, said...
That kind of attention to detail helped auto-parts maker Borg-Warner, which discovered that the Japanese believe a product must look good even if the customer will never see it. Borg-Warner, a manufacturing conglomerate, makes a five-speed transmission used in Nissan's popular 280Z and 300ZX sports cars. While the driver sees only the stick shift, Nissan insisted that the whole transmission must shine. "We ran into the Japanese fetish for appearance," says Thomas Hague, the firm's Asian area director. "It's an emotional thing with them." After Borg-Warner polished up its act, Nissan...
...obvious reason for Buckley's conversion is speed. "Writing on the word processor takes less time," he declares. So much less, in fact, that even his professional friends are impressed. "It takes Bill 20 minutes to write a column," says Peter McWilliams, an acquaintance and the author of several best-selling, how-to computer books (The Word Processing Book, The Personal Computer Book). "Word processors were really made...