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...former Harvard professor said he voluntarily came to yesterday's $100-a-head fundraiser to support Brooke because the Senator is "a man of honor, integrity, and a national asset...
Woolway considers his best asset as a player to be his mobility, which was graphically illustrated by his derring-do tackles on Saturday. "You just can't stop until the whistle blows," he says. And that's balance...
That the subject should come up in that form at all is rather amazing. Capital gains taxes are levied on profits realized on the sale of stock, real estate, businesses or almost any asset held for twelve months or longer. As late as 1969 the lid on this tax was 25%; one of the supposed triumphs of the loophole closers of the mid-1970s was to raise that maximum to 49% now, and as recently as a year ago the Carter Administration was preparing a proposal to tax capital gams at full ordinary-income rates, which would have meant...
Ultimately, the Sisters are dealing in an exhaustible asset: though the day when the oil begins to run out has been delayed, it will come. The companies prudently are putting huge sums into diversification. They own far more coal than firms that specialize in coal mining, are active in uranium production and solar power research. Exxon and Gulf are partners with Cities Service and the Canadian government in Syncrude, a company that will open a plant designed to squeeze oil at last from the famed Athabasca tar sands. The sands, in northern Alberta, have long been known to contain gigantic...
...many years has been trying to "demonetize" gold-that is, end its use as a reserve asset-on the reasonable ground that the volume of world trade and investment should not depend on how much of a yellow metal can be dug out of the ground in South Africa. But the price rise is renewing gold's glitter in the eyes of central bankers. Australia, Italy, France and The Netherlands, all financial allies of the U.S., have revalued their gold holdings from the old official rate of $35 an ounce to the prevailing market price, thus multiplying the value...