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...form and extent of tax cuts for companies and investors. In itself that marks a profound shift in tax philosophy. Past cuts have been aimed pri marily at giving consumers more after-tax dollars to spend, in the hope that their buying would lift the economy; business spending to build new plants, modernize machinery and introduce new products was expected to follow automatically. But investment now is very low, and the absorbing question of tax policy has become how to design cuts to spur the largest rise in investment. Or, to put it another way, how to remove obstacles that...
...spending 8% or 9%." He drew an analogy with 16th century Spain, which "became the principal beneficiary of the discovery of the New World in the form of large amounts of gold and silver, introducing into Spain huge amounts of unearned purchasing power. It was spent to build the most elegant society the world had ever seen up to that time in Europe . . . But it was a consumptive society, and when the Spaniards went through their gold, they invested nothing-and economically they entered the 17th century barefoot. The question for us is: Have we found a way to build...
...stood at the asylum gates at the close of the film, it was clear that he was rejecting the crazy world outside for the sane world of the crazies. When Johnny runs into the bin at the end of the musical, well, it's just as easy, given the build-up, to assume that he's going in there because his buddies are there, the people who've been nicer to him than anybody else. War? What war? This is a musical, baby, and the soldiers might just as well dance off into the sunset. Something essential gets lost...
These and other scientists findings indicate that dioxin may accumilate in the body. Even if a person is exposed to a very low dosage of dioxin, repeated exposures have the same effect as one massive dose. Some scientists also speculate that dioxin may build up in the body fat producing toxic effects when the fat is broken down by weight loss. Accumulation would explain the characteristic symptoms of dioxin that occur years after a veteran served in a sprayed area...
...Charles Construction Company, contracted by the MBTA to build the extension of the Red Line from Harvard to Arlington, was forced to close Dunster Street in order to repair a broken water main...