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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...America's dependence on oil imports by backing the recent fuel efficiency bills in Congress which are part of the clean air package. These laws would raise average mileage to 40 miles per gallon, a technologically simple and inexpensive measure (many cars already get better gas mileage). With the use of airbags and the spread of seatbelt laws, fuel-efficient cars do not have to be unsafe cars...
...That attack dovetailed with a surge of protests aimed at the excise tax increases, particularly the 10 cents per gal. on gasoline -- never mind that the U.S. is involved in a gulf crisis partly because of its failure to use energy prudently. Word that there would be a tax break for the wealthy also prompted indignation. The offices of some lawmakers received hundreds of calls protesting the measures. Radio call-in programs got a similar response. At radio station WGST in Atlanta, all three talk shows buzzed with listeners' indignation. Said producer Nancy Zintak: "I haven't heard people this...
Even so, the women-in-the-locker-room system for the most part works when league commissioners, team executives and players want it to. In the National Basketball Association, which gave women equal access without rancor or lawsuits, these altercations have not taken place. The players use bathrobes or rely on towels to ensure their privacy...
...your October 10 opinion piece "Unity Needed in Gulf Crisis," the writers use one quote by the Society of Arab Students' president, namely that "the main idea is to get U.S. troops out of the Gulf," to accuse three different student groups at Harvard of supporting Iraqi president Saddam Hussein...
Observant Lamont patrons often notice that many books have a strip on the cover for bar codes and expect to use them instead of filling out a card. Unfortunately, very few staff members at Lamont have light pens in their index fingers. FAS started to bar-code some Lamont books several years ago, but at the last moment decided to postpone installing the computers and putting the system on-line...