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REDUCING TAXES ON DIVIDENDS. Advocates say a cut in taxes on dividends paid to shareholders would spur business investment and improve the stability of U.S. corporations by encouraging them to issue stock rather than borrow money...
...largest member - and one of the poorest. Its young population could be an advantage for the E.U.'s looming imbalance between pensioners and workers, but its different cultural, military and, yes, religious traditions could change the face of Europe. Few people doubt that the prospect of eventual membership will spur Turkey to continue on the path of reform. But no one is sure what would happen once it actually joined...
These results should spur us to pay more, not less, attention to ballot initiatives before the next election. Ballot initiatives are currently treated as second-class electoral issues, largely ignored in favor of headliners like gubernatorial races—headliners whose arcane differences in political philosophy are, in fact, often far less exciting than the issues at hand in ballot initiatives. The more attention they are given and the less their authors’ hidden aims remain relatively unexplored in the press, the better-poised ballot initiatives will be to fulfill their purpose as vital, direct tools for an informed...
...years, to fire at planes patrolling the "no-fly" zone maintained by the U.S. and Britain as signs of Saddam's continued defiance. Administration officials are also complaining that the inspection team is too small and its activities too limited, thus far. But those complaints are hardly likely to spur even America's allies to endorse...
...While international competition was the watchword for exporters, the government sought universal employment and stability at home. With coffers flush from the nation's high personal-savings rate, the government launched massive public-works projects designed to rebuild a smashed infrastructure, provide jobs and spur internal demand. For the domestic industries, Japan pursued consistently protectionist, anti-competitive policies, with the intention of keeping as many companies afloat as possible. "Ten percent of the country was allowed to be capitalist, and the other 90% was socialist," says Eisuke Sakakibara, director of the Global Security Research Center at Keio University...