Word: businessman
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INVESTMENT TAX CREDITS. Most companies and self-employed persons (doctors, lawyers, farmers) are now allowed to subtract from their taxes 7% (4% for utilities) of the cost of new machines and other equipment. The bill will increase this to 10% for 1975 and 1976. In general, for the businessman to qualify, the equipment must have been purchased after Jan. 21 of this year. The two-year cost: $3.35 billion...
...electrifying as the descent of a Martian spaceship. Abed recovering from pneumonia, Paul Buckley, senior scientist for the National Park Service in Boston, promptly got up on hearing the news of the sighting and drove straightway to Salisbury, Mass. Four Maryland enthusiasts drove all night to the site. One businessman winged in from Los Angeles. Friends desperately tried to get word to an expert vacationing in Africa to return at once. As the week wore on, cars with an array of license plates from across the nation flocked to Salisbury. Battalions of observers armed with telescopes, cameras dwarfed by huge...
...screen was in fact the same fellow with whom Lyons had just concluded a six-figure real estate deal. "It was the first I knew he was an actor," says Lyons stoutly. "He had a proposition, and when we met to make the transaction, he was a totally professional businessman...
There is none of M*A*S*Hs can-the-caduceus flippancy about Rogers-as-businessman. His investment philosophy, say his clients, is strictly "traditionalist." So is Rogers. Born William Wayne McMillan Rogers III, the son of a wealthy lawyer in Birmingham, Ala., Rogers in his youth was suitably Southern-comfortable: "I drank beer, chased girls and drove fast cars." Sent to a boarding school for "Southern incorrigibles" in Bell Buckle, Tenn., Rogers finally buckled down and eventually graduated from Princeton with honors...
Barely settled into new quarters, many of them hope that the partition of the two communities will become permanent. Businessman Ahmet Gazioglu, 44, likens the island of Cyprus to a house occupied by two families. Says he: "We can share the same kitchen and living room with the Greeks, but we must sleep apart...