CAFE standards; ADS-L problems

[Dave Wilton]

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Subject: CAFE standards; ADS-L problems

>CAFE STANDARDS--I hate this acronym, but it has to be entered.
>>From the NY POST, 10 March 2002, pg. 29, col. 1: "The Democrats'
>bill would greatly increase what are known as the CAFE standards
>(for Corporate Average Fuel Economy)."
>   My "CAFE standards" include a clean restroom and good coffee.

Another "CAFE" acronym story: The treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in
Europe, which was negotiated in in Vienna in 1989-90, was abbreviated "CFE"
because no one would take the "Vienna CAFE talks" seriously.