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...Republican platform also pledges Nixon to tax reform, but what that might consist of is a mystery. The President once talked of providing $16 billion to local communities for property tax relief, but he now promises unspecified modest.sums to reduce property taxes for the elderly only. Administration officials hint that they have in mind some other tax reforms that would encourage investment; these changes look like the opposite of McGovern's. Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson talks of cutting capital gains taxes. The idea is to allow investors to deduct certain sums representing the extent to which the real value...
Freshman orientation week gave us a hint of what we could expect life to be like at Radcliffe. Our experience when attempting to section for Expository Writing set the tone for our new life in this competitive environment. We had learned our first Harvard lesson at registration--"Be Early"--so we rose at the sound of the roosters to be sure we were placed in the Expos sections we wanted. Arriving at Mem Hall at 6:34 a.m., we were understandably surprised to find two guys from the Yard who had already been there for half an hour. Although...
...fourth and final movement seemed dedicated to Wagner - first the somber three-note motif from the Ring cycle, then a bare but undisguised hint of love theme from Tristan und Isolde...
...pledge that the U.S. would make the dollar convertible again -that is, buy back new dollars that other nations acquire in dealings with the U.S. and wish to exchange for gold, S.D.R.s or other assets. Shultz confided to reporters last week that his speech-writers tried several circumlocutions to hint-without quite saying it-that the U.S. would restore convertibility once its international payments came back into balance. Instead, the Secretary decided simply to make the flat promise that Connally never would...
Before managers can celebrate, they must figure how much of the productivity gain is a temporary result of the business surge and how much may reflect more basic factors. Some hint of the basic factors is contained in reports by the BLS and the federal Price Commission, which cite the average annual increase in productivity for major industries in the past dozen years. For the first time, these statistics give businessmen a chance to rate their productivity gains against the average for their competitors. They also enable economists to figure out just where productivity gains have been occurring...