Word: credited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stimulate investment and civilian research and development. The investment tax credit, which was eliminated in the 1986 tax-reform act, should be restored -- as long as consumption taxes are levied to make up the revenue loss. Companies should receive credits for investments not only in plant and equipment but also in human capital, like spending on worker training. Perhaps a third of the Pentagon's research and development should be gradually shifted to projects with commercial value...
Will they meet? Will he try to be her mentor? Will she try to mother him? Need you ask? Will these two succumb to romantic entanglement? Well, no. Despite nicely managed temptation, they avoid it, and credit goes to David Seltzer for that intelligent choice. And for a movie that is full of terrific comic material and well-cast second bananas (John Goodman as Lilah's befuddled husband, Max Alexander and Mac Robbins as ne'er-do-well comedians...
...Brazzaville. Many states in the area are just as eager as South Africa to speed the departure of 50,000 Cuban troops from Angola as a prelude to ending the 13-year Angolan civil war between the Marxist government and South African-backed UNITA rebels. The attraction of sharing credit for bringing peace to southern Africa is exerting a magnetic pull on leaders who would not otherwise associate with Pretoria...
...lingers: Could it happen again? Yes, answers a senior partner in the Lazard Freres investment banking firm and one of the most respected members of the financial community. The securities markets and the tax system must undergo fundamental reforms, he maintains. Otherwise, inadequate regulation, excessive speculation and overuse of credit could bring on a banking crisis and a stock collapse more damaging than the Crash...
...have yet to address the basic problems: excessive volatility, excessive speculation, excessive use of credit and inadequate regulation. This speculative behavior is not driven by individual manipulators, as was the case in the 1920s and '30s, but by institutions such as pension funds, insurance companies, banks and savings and loan associations backed, in many cases, by state and U.S. Government guarantees. Curbing speculation and promoting investment must be the objectives of reform...