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...month minimum of employment for full-time teenagers hired under this tax credit. That, at least, would prevent employers from firing newly-hired teenagers as soon as they came of age. Also, reduced labor costs resulting from the present freeze of the minimum wage as inflation continues to climb, together with the tax credit, will encourage employers to hire more workers...
...Soviets, with the power moving on by decade's end to men like Gorbachev and Vladimir Dolgikh, 57, who are not well known in the Soviet Union, let alone in the U.S. Totally obscure, of course, are the thousands of other politicians and administrators who are seeking to climb upward from their present middle-level party positions. Almost all are male and in their 50s, but hardly anything is known about the personalities or views of these people...
...once again got into the act. Senator Henry Jackson introduced legislation that in effect made increased Jewish emigration a condition for easier Soviet access to the American market. It backfired. The Kremlin objected to "unacceptable interference in our internal affairs," and emigration dropped off sharply. Later it began to climb again, reaching 51,000 in 1979, but by last year it had plummeted to fewer than...
Native of Michigan, Vietnam veteran, source of intense family pride, Maj. Brewster H. Shaw Jr. will climb aboard the jewel of America's space program sometime next September for a flight which may be the shuttle's first round-trip voyage--from Cape Canaveral, Fla. and back again. With Brewster finally having his day in orbit after five years in the space program, relatives and friends look to the shuttle with pride and excitement. The overall purpose of the ninth mission will to them to be irrelevant. However, this flight--along with the others, including this week's--will likely...
...plain-paper office copier was introduced in 1959, sold as high as $172 in 1972. It closed at only $37.75 last week, even after moving up in the big market rally; it was at $29 two months ago when the Dow Jones industrial average began its 250-point climb. The low level of the I stock helped fan suspicions held by I Garrett and others that the purchase I served mainly to anchor the company against possible takeover by lowering its cash reserves and increasing the number of shareholders...