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...depletion allowance and the tightening of write-off provisions that are now enjoyed by the oil industry are expected to bring in just $600 million a year in additional revenues, the psychological impact of the cuts would be great. The depletion allowances, whose whole purpose is to help offset the costs of finding and exploiting new mineral sources, are regarded by many as the most blatant example of special tax privilege for industry...
...mark two years ago, when the Kennedy Round of world trade negotiations produced the deepest industrial tariff cuts ever made. Since then, protectionism has been staging a global comeback and has involved the U.S. in disputes with many nations. In Europe, a host of new nontariff barriers have partly offset the cuts in duties. Special taxes on imports last year helped West Germany to record a surplus in trade with the U.S. for the first time...
...feature the liberals could hardly oppose. To ease the reformers' consciences further, Mills pledged a major tax-revision program by year's end. This compromise, originally suggested by Nixon, will cost the Treasury an estimated $625 million a year. The elimination of the investment credit will offset that by bringing in $1.5 billion a year...
...weeks with a jury." In the civil law system in Europe, he said, "they never let one judge do anything. So if one judge in three is defective, which is probably about par for the American system, there are in Denmark or Holland or Sweden two other judges to offset him." - "I am no longer sure that the Fifth Amendment concept, in its present form and as presently applied and interpreted, has all the validity attributed to it. I am talking about requiring a defendant to testify...
...Lewis became president of the United Mine Workers, a post he was to hold until 1960. During his first decade as union chief, economic conditions and his own mistakes almost destroyed the U.M.W. Faced with difficulties, he sought to offset bad publicity by launching a witch hunt for supposed Communists in the union. Between 1920 and 1930, dues-paying membership shrank from more than 400,000 to fewer than...