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...Bicycle Bonanza...
...while casting the Republicans as champions of the rich for supporting a capital-gains tax cut that would mainly benefit families with annual incomes of $200,000 and up. Although the Bush Administration officially opposes the Moynihan tax cut, some Republicans are trying to head off a potential political bonanza for the Democrats by supporting the idea. A number of them also favor the tax cut on ideological grounds, claiming that it will shift resources from the public to the private sector...
...Blessedly, traffic through dealer showrooms has begun to show signs of revival in recent weeks. "It's up 30% to 40%," beams Mark Hutchins, general sales manager for Ford's Lincoln-Mercury Division. "We're ready for things to turn around, and we think they're turning." An unexpected bonanza: Kuwait may need to replace 100,000 cars and trucks...
...Persian Gulf. For contractors, the long- and short-term trends are contradictory. As the developers of new weapons systems face increasingly tough times, suppliers who meet the needs of Desert Shield with such items as boots, camouflage netting and gas masks are enjoying an unexpected -- but presumably brief -- bonanza...
Australian salesmanship in Asia has brought in healthy profits, but commodity prices remain subject to mercurial swings. Two years ago, when wool was fetching a high world price of $4.81 per lb., sheep men delighted in their earnings bonanza and stepped up production. They could not have foreseen that China, a big customer, would drop out of the market in the wake of Beijing's Tiananmen Square upheaval, when Western credits were cut off. Nor could they have predicted that the financially strapped Soviets would cancel orders and stop paying bills...