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...amount been paid last year, it would have taken a bite out of Kodak's profits of $643.4 million, which it earned on sales of nearly $6 billion. Kodak will doubtless avoid paying anything for years, while it carries appeals to higher courts. But the legal battle stands to cloud the future of a company that has suffered some reverses lately. Kodak has been less than victorious in its battle with Polaroid in the instant-camera market, and Kodak's stock has plunged from a 1973 high of 151¾ to last week's 42⅛. What...
...Representative Abner Mikva, would pay for these programs from general federal revenues. Massachusetts Congressman James Burke, the chairman of a House subcommittee on Social Security, has proposed that one-third of the Social Security system's cost be paid from general revenues. This change would lessen the tax bite on most Americans" paychecks. The reason is that the Government's general revenues come chiefly from income taxes, which are assessed more broadly than Social Security taxes. For instance, most Government workers do not participate in the Social Security system; nor are taxes for it levied on income from...
...said to me the competition for jobs makes the competition for grades look trivial," Turow says. "Performance in class is no longer important; it's who made you an offer and flew you down to Washington that becomes the new status, and some people crave it. People will back-bite, and go interview with law firms and say bad things about people they know...
With the score 4-3 after two periods, B.U.'s John Bethel and goalie Jim Craig proved the Terriers' bite was as bad as their bark, as they helped their team slide to a decisive victory, Bethel garnering a last-second tally to seal...
...Inauguration, when Lance was grilled by a Senate committee about his banking affairs. More important, Kattel made numerous statements that recovery for Atlanta and C & S was just around the corner. When the Comptroller of the Currency questioned loans Kattel had thought sound, Kattel concluded that he had to bite the bullet himself. Said he: "We misjudged both the severity [of the problem] and the timing of the recovery. The frustration to me personally has been immense, and the credibility of the bank and its spokesmen must be restored...