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...Line. The National Air Quality Standards Act has the legal clout to back up its stiff requirements. It calls for civil penalties of up to $10,000 a day in fines, plus criminal penalties of up to $25,000 a day and two years' imprisonment. While the strictures apply to all polluters, the biggest bite will be taken out of heavy industry...
...Conference Committee. The House has already passed a bill generally weaker than Muskie's. His bill faces rough going in the Conference Committee because of its steep price tag and its potential impact on the auto industry. Insiders predict a compromise bill that will keep most of the stiff air-quality requirements for industry in general, while easing up on Detroit's deadline...
Turnabout. That seemed to be the case when the two sloops squared off for the first race in a cold rain and stiff, 20-knot winds. Trailing by 200 yds. at the first mark on the triangular 24.3-mile course, Gretel II attempted to set her spinnaker, but it knotted into the dread hourglass shape that is the stuff of a racing skipper's nightmares, and stayed that way for five agonizing minutes. Barely had the crewmen cleared the headsail when Gretel II nosed into a heavy wave that bucked Crewman Paul Salmon off the slippery deck. While...
...students, Bowker redoubled recruiting efforts and succeeded in attracting the same proportion of academic whiz kids that the university has boasted in past years. To keep the disadvantaged students from dragging down academic standards, the university is giving them as much time as they need to finish, plus a stiff dose of remedial courses. The catch-up work will not count toward a degree. Bowker insists: "We will not award college degrees for anything except college-level work...
...Fall semester, the CRR acted on 65 cases of alleged student misconduct, and its punishments were harsh. The committee ordered 16 students to leave the University, two of whom could not return without a majority vote of the Faculty approving their readmission. Most of the rest were given stiff warnings and told that they too would be made to leave if they participated in another disruption...