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...crop during last winter's severe cold spell. So far, the commission has received some 85,000 letters about Bryant, backing her 3 to 1. This week the commission will meet in Lakeland, Fla., to decide whether or not to extend her contract as its $100,000-a-year sunshine spokeswoman...
...would be the last year in which both paid the same tax: 6.05% of the first $17,700 earned by the worker. The next year, employers would pay taxes on up to $50,000 of an employee's income; in 1985, they would pay taxes on up to $75,000. For workers, however, the base would rise much more slowly, not reaching $75,000 until the year 2000. The committee also wants to increase the tax rate for both employers and employees in steps, to 9.2% in 2011. At that point, a $20,000-a-year worker would be shelling...
DIED. José Ber Gelbard, 60, wealthy Argentine aluminum and tire manufacturer who served as Economy Minister (May 1973 to October 1974) under President Juan Perón and his widow Isabel; of a heart attack; in Washington, B.C. To slow Argentina's 80%-a-year inflation, Gelbard decreed stringent wage and price controls. But his policies contributed to the country's near economic collapse, precipitating the 1976 coup that overthrew Isabel. Said Gelbard of Argentine business: "There are no rules. Those who are in power make up the rules. So those out of favor are bound...
...Arthur Kuechenmeister retired 13 months ago from his $25,000-a-year job as a tire technologist for Uniroyal, with a sense of serious foreboding. "The worst part of it is the feeling that you're washed up, you're through," he says. "You feel that your life is over with, you're no longer a part of the team, the group. They don't want you any more...
...singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic all day. The truth goes marching on," Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci said at a press conference yesterday. Though Vellucci may have lost his $16,000-a-year state job this week, he has still kept his sense of humor. And his title--he hopes...