Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strategy appears to be meeting with some success. On the military front, students and non-Marxist elements such as "radical Christians" have joined in the offensive. On the political front, a group of prominent Nicaraguans--including wealthy businessmen, clergy and lawyers--have issued a declaration praising the "political maturity" of the guerrillas and warning that the FSLN must participate in any solution to Nicaragua's political crisis...
...Republican Congressman Guy Vander Jagt elevates the tax issue to geophysical dimensions. "It is a tidal wave," he says, after a week of listening to complaints on a trip from Florida to California. Oklahoma's Democratic Representative James R. Jones finds signals of desperation among small businessmen and wage earners. The burdens of state and local taxes are at the breaking point, they say. Then from Washington comes the message of immense increases in the Social Security bite and the series of proposed energy taxes that would reach right back into the pocketbooks of middle-class Americans and business...
...Washington replay of the classic Abbott and Costello baseball routine "Who's on first?" As the President and his aides have zigged and zagged-proposing and then abandoning a $50 tax rebate, touting a major tax-reform program, then delaying it and shifting the emphasis to tax cuts-businessmen, brokers and economic forecasters have complained that the Administration's economic voice is muffled and mystifying...
...that there is no coherent voice coming out of the Administration." Corporate leaders like Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro complain that the Oval Office has seemed off limits for business since the exit of Budget Boss Bert Lance. Last week Carter responded to that criticism by meeting with 25 businessmen to discuss the economy...
...growing and making of wines can be a hobby for some. For the most part, however, the new challengers are businessmen who figure on a solid cash return on their liquid investment. Regardless of the cost of the land, it may take at least $1,300 an acre to plant the good vines-though the return can be bountiful: around 3,000 bottles. The further cost of fertilizing, weeding, spraying, pruning, picking, vinification and bottling makes wine a costly enterprise. Then add the investment in sophisticated equipment: a single stainless-steel 1,000-gal. vat can soak the vintner...