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Chorus of Protest. Giscard's capital gains tax measure is designed to shift some of the financial burden away from income and value-added taxes to the kind of capital gains levy on the sale of stocks and property that is common to virtually every advanced industrial country. Affecting only some 300,000 people and bringing in a mere 3.3% of all taxes, the measure is certainly modest. Nonetheless, it has stirred up a chorus of protest from Lille to Nice...
Government requirements do involve a substantial administrative burden. Fantastic amounts of time and energy have been devoted in this University to gathering data, obtaining computer printouts, and preparing hundreds of pages of reports to HEW...Despite these costs, I believe that the extra work has been worthwhile. Our poor record prior to the past four years suggests special efforts have indeed been necessary. In addition, the efforts we have made have allowed us to understand our personnel policies more fully, to identify many deficiencies, and to provide more genuinely equal opportunities at Harvard...
...several other commodities. The U.S. has also offered to help launch an International Resources Bank to finance new investments in raw materials in developing countries. Meanwhile, the West's economic recovery has helped lift commodity prices from last year's depressed levels. Largely for this reason, the burden of debt carried by the developing countries may be less severe than was first expected-a fact that may help to smooth further the irritated relations between the world's rich and poor nations...
This year as a senior, Tennis emerged as the team's best scorer, notching 43 goals and 63 points and often shouldering the offensive burden alone in the rough games. By notching eight points in his final game, he finished in ninth place on the Harvard career scoring list...
Present unemployment pay-offs cause a "financial burden" which now totals almost $100,000 for summer food service workers, Edward Powers said...