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...city's growing homeless population milder winters are something of a boon...
Perhaps so, but the high-profile maneuvering has heightened people's determination to beat the taxman and helped provide a boon to accountants. "We have seen a tremendous increase in inquiries on tax-avoidance strategies since the November election," says Vincent Vaccaro, a tax partner for the accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand. "There has been great interest in seeking to accelerate income into 1992, especially for those in the $200,000 bracket and above...
...what packaged foods really contain. Finalized after weeks of wrangling between the Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services, the 4,000 pages of regulations spell out guidelines for labeling the amount of calories, fat and nutrients in everything from potato chips to cans of soup. This boon to the consumer doesn't come cheap. By May of 1994, more than 270,000 food labels must be changed, costing the industry about $2 billion. But, it will be worth the trouble, says HHS Secretary Dr. Louis Sullivan, "The Tower of Babel in food labels has come down, and American...
...growing use of epidural pain relief, once largely confined to the obstetric delivery room to ease labor, has been a tremendous boon to cancer and postoperative patients. A terminal cancer patient who no longer receives adequate relief from huge doses of oral morphine can find relief at a fraction of the dosage with an epidural, and feel a lot less "doped up" as well. Epidurals are commonly used today after knee surgery and are increasingly being incorporated into the home care of acutely ill patients...
With over 200,000 people expected in Cambridge for the event, businesses are gearing up for what they expect to be a commercial boon...