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...year tenure with the Pistons. Brown's personality clashes with some of the players are compounded by an embarrassment of riches. After obtaining four high-priced players during the off-season to strengthen the lineup, the Pistons have more talent than a 48-minute game can contain. On the twelve-man Detroit roster are eight players accustomed to starting and playing 35 to 40 minutes a game. A ninth man was a part-time starter last year, and still another was the fourth player chosen in the college draft last spring. Since the N.B.A. remains old-fashioned when...
...work, titled "A Directory of Significant 20th Century American Women," will contain profiles of 600 women drawn from suggestions by civil rights, women's, political, ethnic, civic, and other naitonal organizations, Smith said...
Each entry will contain a short biography of the woman, as well as a personal statement of what she considers her contribution to American life...
That, however, will not end the tinkering. When Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman this week presents to the committee his own proposals for what would eventually be called the Tax Reduction Act of 1977, his draft is likely to contain a major revision of the President's plans to lower business taxes. Carter wants to offer companies a choice: they could reduce their income taxes by an amount equal to 4% of the Social Security taxes they pay on each worker, or to 12% of the money they spend on new plant and equipment. Many Congressmen want...
Thin Profits. Volvo's high prices are largely the result of a 40% raise in Swedish labor costs in the past two years. To contain the damage to sales, Volvo has absorbed some of the cost in export markets, rather than pass on the full rise in prices charged to foreign buyers. Result: Volvo's 1976 profits of $136 million were only 3.7% of sales, v. 10% in 1972 and 1973. Profits on export sales to North America and Western Europe were a paper-thin...