Word: deductionism
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By "The Five Percent" the authors do not mean "the Five Percenter" commissions of lobbyists, but rather a five percent deduction the new federal tax laws allow from net taxable corporate earnings if business invests that amount in educational or welfare projects.
Today, they point out, if companies are in the excess profits category, management can be putting up one dollar in gifts for a three dollar tax deduction. If five percent of the nation's net corporate income were actually spent on educational purposes, it would amount to a 2.2 billion...
There is then no flattering comparison, or no insulting deduction. But the rules of the totem, its taboos and its legends, are fairly well-known to us now, in the examples that have been found among primitive or barbaric races. What we fail to do is to realize that the...
(Wed. 10:30 p.m., NBC) introduces Britain's Rex (Bell, Book and Candle) Harrison in the unlikely role of a Manhattan amateur sleuth. Though saddled with a lackwit assistant (Leon Janney), set upon by an amorous blonde, slugged by a T-man, and tossed into a taxi with a...
BIT. YOU QUOTE POST ADVERTISING LINAGE WITH CUSTOMARY DEDUCTION FOR SUNDAY SUPPLEMENTS, BUT ADVERTISING LINAGE YOU QUOTE FOR THE TIMES-HERALD INCLUDED SUNDAY SUPPLEMENTS. MEDIA RECORDS FIGURE FOR TIMES-HERALD LESS SUNDAY SUPPLEMENTS IS 20,032,756. ON THIS BASIS, POST LEADS (NOT LAGS) THE TIMES-HERALD BY 489,000...