Word: businessmen
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With that calm announcement, Carter signaled that he had finally been persuaded by the advice that most businessmen, economists and congressional leaders have been giving him for several weeks: his proposed tax cut of about $25 billion is too large. In December, when he first proposed a cut of that size, Administration economists figured that it was needed to stimulate profits, investment and employment, and thus head off a business slowdown forecast for the second half of the year. Since then, inflation has picked up speed, to an annual rate of 9.2% during the first quarter of the year. Observed...
...Conservancy attempts to work with large land-holding corporations, identifying unused but ecologically valuable lands. Then it hammers out arrangements that make it worthwhile for a company either to donate them or sell them at a price the organization can afford to pay. "We don't belabor businessmen with their past sins," explains Conservancy President Patrick Noonan. "What we talk about instead is the parts of the environment they can help save." Business men seem impressed by this combination of philanthropy and sound finance; the Conservancy's 49,000 members include 157 corporations...
...Private contributors must also get involved." Others, including Redford, businessmen and raptor experts, are also enlisting in the campaign. Together, the group believes that it can meet a Dec. 31 deadline for exercising its options on the canyon lands...
...Harvard Black Law Students Association and the Charles Hamilton Houston Black Alumni Association sponsored the $2000 weekend, which featured approximately 50 prominent black lawyers, businessmen and politicians in discussion panels on the theme, "Facing the '70s: Creative Roles for Black Lawyers in the Struggle for Equality...
Donald Warden, international businessman and lawyer and keynote speaker for the conference, said Saturday, "Black lawyers and businessmen especially need to develop alliances in Third World countries to develop political and economic clout in America...