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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Treasury's tax-reform proposals to Carter also contain many provisions designed to give business more money for investment. Among them: a cut in the top corporate tax rate from the present 48% to 46% or less; more generous investment tax credits; some easing of the double tax on dividends, which are taxed first as corporate profits and then as individual income to shareholders. Strangely, these concessions have made next to no impression on businessmen, who seem unwilling to believe anything good about the tax bill until it is sent to Congress with Carter's blessing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Carter: a Problem of Confidence | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

Puerto Rican terrorism tends to be a family enterprise. Cells often contain cousins, brothers, husbands and wives. José, raised in Manhattan's Spanish Harlem, was deeply influenced by an uncle ("A man I would die for") who was active in the independence movement. After a street-corner childhood and a Navy tour that ended with a jail sentence, José developed a "total lack of respect" for the U.S. and migrated to Puerto Rico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Forecast: More Bombs Ahead | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...problem boiled down to this--the Crimson offense simply lacked the ammunition to penetrate the rock-like Princeton defensive line, while the explosive Tiger offense proved too much for goalkeeper Fred Herold and the Harvard defense to contain...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Crimson Takes a Licking From Tigers As Princeton Booters Roar to 4-1 Win | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

Paul J. Wang '79, one group member, said yesterday he hopes the magazine would be able to contain guest articles by Harvard professors and alumni. He added he is "pretty sure it will be put out by Harvard undergraduates...

Author: By Alfred E. Jean, | Title: Science Magazine | 10/14/1977 | See Source »

...wishes to live outside the Bantustans, an African must work for a white. In the "white" areas--which contain all the country's major industry, towns and agriculture--Africans may not own houses or land, or, often, live with their families. They must live in segregated townships, for which the regime provides tiny houses, usually without running water or electricity. But the poverty of the Bantustans forces thousands of Africans to shuttle back and forth to the towns, taking any job offered, at any wage...

Author: By Neva L. Seidman, | Title: Harvard's Share in Apartheid | 9/27/1977 | See Source »

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