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...good news is that stocks would generally receive a lasting boost. Cutting the tax ensures better after-tax returns. So if you've been afraid to step back into the market, get over it. This plan would deleverage corporate America by making stock, not debt, a more attractive way to raise money and restore investor confidence by drawing attention to companies fit enough to boost cash payouts. The plan also encourages companies to stop dodging taxes, because only fully taxed profits could be paid as taxfree dividends. Some form of dividend-tax relief will almost surely survive any political horse...
...there was "not much chance" of reaching a deal on the island's future if the two sides were not given more time to talk. But time may be running out for Denktash, since Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has in principle endorsed Annan's plan - in order to boost Turkey's own bid to join...
...restrictions - may also have to answer. The program that President Jacques Chirac unveiled when standing for re-election last March assumed 3% growth over the next five years. Chirac told voters that such expansion would allow him to cut income taxes by a third, lower some corporate rates, and boost spending on police and defense. But if he keeps his promises, it will be impossible for France to toe Brussels' line. In the past, Chirac has had a major economic force pulling in his favor - French consumers, whose spending could qualify as patriotic. It's a resilience not unique...
President Lawrence H. Summers unveiled a $14 million boost to financial aid across the University Wednesday, as the centerpiece of an aggressive plan to make graduate education at Harvard more affordable...
...Case's timing was, in its way, exquisite. In these first trading weeks of the new year, Wall Street has given tech stocks a cautiously optimistic boost; analysts and investors, listening for the first footsteps of a recovery, are looking anew for winners in the post-bubble era. That we were no longer (or not yet) living in Steve Case's world of set-top universes and double-digit growth rates has been (painfully) obvious for two years. But somehow, it seemed important that Case, in deed if not in word, admit...