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Second, billions of dollars (not to mention vast reservoirs of human ingenuity) can be wasted turning disfavored forms of income into favored forms. The essential function of the tax-shelter industry was converting ordinary income into capital gains, before the gains break was eliminated in the 1986 tax reform...
...when you're listening to that Pink Floyd album you last played when you were stoned and accidentally dropped on the floor in trying to flip it over. (If you couldn't have experiences like this, what would be the point in getting stoned and making spastic attempts to function normally...
...drive, a basic version of the LTE retails for $2,999. A more powerful model offers 40 megabytes of hard-disk memory for $4,999. Even at those prices, the LTE will be a formidable competitor, according to industry analysts. Boasts Compaq spokesman John Sweney: "It's a full-function PC. It gets everything into that same size without any of the compromises that other manufacturers had to make." Compaq is aiming at a hot new market: laptop sales are expected to grow from 834,000 units this year to 2 million annually...
...happen again." Don Valentine, a partner in Sequoia Capital, a venture-capital firm, contends that creative stagnation is confined mostly to the big corporations, including IBM, Wang and Unisys. Says he: "There is no innovation at the dinosaur companies that are run by Neanderthals. Perhaps they have outlived their function...
...added, "I'd like to set an example and to make it [the CCA proposal] a model to give people confidence in the function of city government...