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...working model of the 1980s. Behind the bleak, randomly broken windows he imagines 92,000 sq. ft. of space filled by maybe 60 different cottage industries, all running off the mill's hydroelectric power. An ad listed under business opportunities in the Maine Times reads in part: "Abandon ulcers, all ye who enter here ... serene, supportive, imaginative 'business hatchery' for starting second careers. Heated, lighted spaces...
...York, or Boston or Los Angeles, that's fine. Those cities are big enough to encompass a wealthy population of prospective fans. But John Y. Brown had to abandon Lousiville, the city he said he really wanted to move to, because the wealthy market to support the team just wasn't there...
Congressional pressure has also forced the Administration to abandon hope for enactment of the bill's capital gains provisions. The reforms, which would have raised capital gains taxes for some upper-income taxpayers, reflected Carter's populist belief that tax breaks on gains from sales of stocks and other property do little for the economy and benefit mainly wealthy investors. Though the White House would now be grudgingly content to see the tax remain at its present maximum effective rate of 49%, the Steiger amendment seeks to cut the rate to no more than 25%, the level that...
...decision to allow the joining of the nation's seventh (Jones & Laughlin) and eighth (Youngstown) largest steelmakers into what will become the third or fourth biggest clearly hinged on Lykes' doomsday prediction. That prophecy could have proved self-fulfilling, because customers, suppliers and creditors all began to abandon the company for fear it would collapse. Bell rejected his own in-house advice that Lykes could be saved and competition maintained by selling assets to raise cash. The weakness of the company, he said, "led me to conclude that Lykes faced a grave probability of a business failure...
...theme of Creve Coeur, finally, is valor. Toward the end of the play, Dorothea says, "We must pull ourselves together and go on, go on - that's all life seems to offer or demand." That has always been Tennessee Williams' credo, and he is scarcely likely to abandon...