Word: businessmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vellucci said he received some "worried complaints from area businessmen" who are concerned about the impact of the new line on Harvard Square's economy...
...every strength, though, there is an offsetting weakness. A pervasive sense of uncertainty grips businessmen and investors. They worry about the impact of Government policy on inflation and interest rates. In Greenspan's view, the many uncertainties are preventing businessmen from making needed investments, such as expanded research programs to develop new sources of energy. Executives see such serious risks that they will start only projects promising a high, and quick, profit. Says Greenspan, borrowing a football term: "The market system's ability to adjust to perceived future imbalances is being blind-sided by these very high risks...
...cause of wariness is the President's energy program now working its way through Congress. The plan seeks to curb fuel use through a combination of taxes and price boosts that is all but certain to raise living and business costs. Businessmen are holding back on spending commitments until the final version of the bill is approved and they can assess its effect on earnings...
...week or so later. The President is expected to propose cutting tax rates for all individual taxpayers and corporations,* giving business a more generous investment tax credit, and easing the taxation of corporate dividends-but also taxing capital gains as ordinary income and cracking down on expense-account deductions. Businessmen are unsure of not only what the effects would be on their companies, but also whether Congress will enact the proposals favorable to them as well as those that are not. Their view, observes Washington University Professor Murray Weideribaum, is that on taxes "the feds giveth, and the feds taketh...
...impunity with which the terrorists have struck over the past five months has hit West Germany's business community hard. Several businessmen last week recalled an odd incident. After the head of Germany's Dresdener Bank, Jurgen Ponto, was murdered in July, some of his friends gathered for a memorial service in Sensbachtal, where Ponto had kept a hunting lodge. Looking around the room, which contained some of the biggest names in German industry and politics, one man remarked, "The next victim of terrorism is almost certainly standing in this room now." The speaker was Hanns-Martin Schleyer...