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Beyond such statistical reports, all sorts of blue-sky rumors about future tax cuts were coming out of Washington. The Kiplinger Washington Letter said that the slashes would amount to a 25% across-the-board decrease on individual income taxes, plus a reduction in corporation taxes from 52% to 45%. U.S. News & World Report had it a little differently...
...Indolence. The strikes finally unnerved Franco. Canceling a long-planned fishing vacation, he tarried in Madrid and discussed proposals to end the walkout. He balked at bowing completely to the strikers' demands, but he was expected to order across-the-board wage readjustments to head off further trouble...
...Cambridge City Council recommended yesterday a 10 per cent across-the-board salary hike effective October 1 for all City employees, and Councillor Walter J. Sullivan indicated that new taxes on Harvard, Radcliffe, and M.I.T. may pay for the increase...
...steelmen agreed that higher prices were desirable, but many figured that slower, spaced-out boosts would have been more realistic. And many had grave doubts as to the economic feasibility of Big Steel's abrupt, across-the-board raise...
...most of the single items capable of being negotiated. Said one official: "It's getting very difficult to squeeze the orange any more." Prodded by the European Common Market countries, GATT was moving from piecemeal agreements toward a "linear" approach, by which nations would negotiate sweeping, across-the-board cuts on all their products-or at least on broad sectors of industry, such as nonferrous metals or organic chemicals...