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What is much more likely-if the cut is made-is a small across-the-board cut for business, a bigger cut for individuals, and reductions in many excise taxes. Prevalent speculation: ¶ Individuals will probably get about an 11% cut v. a 12% cut in 1954, giving the taxpayer in the $5,000-a-year-and-under bracket (the biggest group) as much as $1.60 a week more in his pay envelope. Loss in Government revenues: $4 billion. ¶ Corporations can look forward to a corporate rate reduction from 52% to 50%. Government loss: $1 billion. ¶ Excise taxes...
...current tuition rise is handled as in the past, scholarship holders cannot be assured of receiving an across-the-board increase of $250. In 1956, when the tuition went from $800 to $1,000, the applications of scholarship holders were considered "on their own merits...
...hundred more in special fees or by working for industry. Last summer the powerful British Medical Association and its trade-union shadow, the British Medical Guild, decided that something must be done. They drummed up doctors' indignation, presented the government with a demand for a 24% across-the-board increase. Trying to check Britain's wage-price spiral, the government flatly refused...
...West Nile infection readily-and in the process his system develops antibodies against it. Some months later (Dr. Price is still not sure what is the best interval), he gets a third shot, this one of killed Japanese B virus. The result, studies to date indicate, is across-the-board immunity against all the B viruses...
...economists were quick to point out that salaries would not get across-the-board increases; the money was to begin an endowment fund to help cover the H.A.A.'s annual deficit of some $600,000. The deficit is presently covered by unrestricted funds...