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Repealing the deductibility of interest on consumer loans. Taxpayers would no longer be allowed to write off the interest they pay on auto loans, credit-card balances and other nonmortgage financing. This may bring a loss of business for lenders and the makers of vehicles and heavy appliances. Said Ira Shapiro, director of tax policy at the Coopers & Lybrand accounting firm: "It could change the way people buy big-ticket items. They may prefer to buy the cheaper item in a product line and pay cash for it, instead of borrowing...
Flattery, however, does not ease the responsibility of keeping the peace in a town that glorifies its lawless past. Tombstone's bloody history is about the only thing it has in the way of a drawing card, and since tourism is about the only thing it has in the way of a business, there you are. Boothill graveyard holds the remains of scores who did not go gentle into that good night. The main drag, Allen Street, is virtually a shrine to the trigger- happy, to soiled doves and to strong drink. Hiring on as a deputy in April...
...School of Government on Tuesday, May 20, for the address by Attorney General Edwin Meese, and on Thursday, May 22, for the address by Secretary of the Treasury James A. Baker, will be by ticket only. Tickets--one per person--will be distributed to bearers of valid Harvard ID card at the Harvard Information Center in Holyoke Center beginning at 9 a.m., Monday, May 19. No one will be admitted to the Forum without a ticket...
...Touch cards, published last month in a 55 million-card first printing, were written by David Viscott, a radio therapist and author (The Making of a Psychiatrist). "This is really America in therapy," he says, "people trying to get themselves together and be whole." Like many other writers of emotional cards, Viscott sometimes seems to be cannibalizing old song lyrics and old movie scripts ("Nobody does it better"; "No matter what happens, we always have us"), but he is willing to tackle unusual subjects like insecurity in the office. One such message -- "Your efficiency sometimes scares the hell...
Grief got Viscott into the card-writing game. When his first marriage was breaking up, he found himself trudging sadly along a Cape Cod beach, jotting down notes about some of his jumbled feelings. Later he showed them to his business partner, who said excitedly, "You know what you have here? These are greeting-card messages!" Viscott launched a card company, then signed on with American Greetings when the business failed. Says Viscott: "Once I heard a voice saying 'Someday you will tell people what they really feel inside,' and that's what...