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...They'd both have to meet the same standards, though. They could be lumped together, and if the juxtaposition sounded funny--Ives wrote a great piano trio with a second movement labeled TSIAJ, for "The Scherzo is a Joke"--the joke was on neither the popular tunes nor the stringent lyricism, but on the pedants who'd have liked to keep them separate. When Ives was joking, his music could be something like a Roy Lichtenstein painting of a comic book frame, mocking people's belief that 'art' should be separate from 'life,' off somewhere in a museum; and when...
...officials are pointing to comparatively high wage levels of $50 a day and a worker absenteeism rate of over 15 per cent. But mine owners were slow to adjust to the operating standards of the 1969 National Mining Safety Act and do not relish the prospect of accepting more stringent Union safety regulations. The industry's sole defense against Union demands for higher pensions is their supposedly inflationary effect. But the operators just don't have enough leverage to counter the new bargaining power labor enjoys...
Side Panels. Ford also asked the automakers to achieve his goal of "a 40% increase in gasoline mileage" within a five-year deadline. That goal is possible, Detroit believes, only if the 1975 emission standards are not made any tougher (they are scheduled to become progressively more stringent in 1977 and 1978)-and if no new weight-adding safety standards (like stronger bumpers and side panels) are imposed. But Congress has shown no sign to date of being ready to ease the standards...
...made. Last month French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing set a ceiling of about $10 billion on what his country would pay for imported oil next year. Because that will amount to a 10% reduction in the volume of petroleum imports (at current prices), France will have to introduce stringent conservation. Gasoline rationing coupons have been printed, and a 68°F. maximum for heating homes has been set. Stores report hot sales of bathrobes, sweaters, nightcaps, slippers and heavy blankets...
...final ruling was a compromise. Nonetheless, Dow Chemical Co. was quick to describe the new limit as "unnecessarily stringent." Having dealt with vc for nearly 25 years and cut exposure levels to 50 p.p.m. back in 1961, the company reported no cases of angiosarcoma; its evidence thus indicated that amount as a safe level of exposure. Moreover, the industry says that it simply does not have the technology to comply with the new restriction, and the Society of the Plastics Industry has sued to overturn OSHA's ruling...