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Battered by cheap imports from Chile, Peru and Zaire, U.S. copper mining has been tarnished in the past few years. The twelve major producers now employ a mere 25,000 workers, down 50% in ten years, and the mines, primarily in the Rocky Mountain states, are running at 60% of capacity. Copper consumption is up 14% this year from last, but American mines simply cannot match competitors in the Third World. They have kept output high and prices down to around 60? per lb., vs. the 82? average cost of U.S. production. Despite those troubles, the Reagan Administration last week...
...liberation theology, Boff contends, "there is no direct link to Marxism"; theologians may employ Marxist theory and terms, but they are anticapitalist not pro-Marxist. Boff states, "We oppose state socialism because it is authoritarianism. We do, however, recognize that countries like Cuba are better off now than before the revolution. For one thing, there are no slums in Cuba...
...bill contains scores of highly technical provisions that are supposed to close loopholes and tear down tax shelters. Two examples: businesses will be allowed smaller deductions on luxury cars they buy or lease for executive use, and individuals will not be permitted accelerated business deductions on computers they employ primarily for figuring out their personal finances. But past experience indicates that sharp-eyed lawyers and accountants can find new dodges inadvertently created by tax-law language designed to close old loopholes. Says one expert at the Office of Management and Budget: "Some of these figures are unavoidably flaky...
...EMPLOYER PENALTIES. The bill requires most employers to demand that job applicants produce documents indicating they are legal residents of the U.S. The aim is to dry up the flood of illegal immigrants across the 2,000-mile Mexican border by discouraging business people from hiring the aliens. In theory, however, the provision would apply to every type of job seeker: Wall Street investment firms would have to demand documentation for Caucasian M.B.A.s, just as Texas restaurants would for dark-skinned would-be dishwashers. The major exemption is for people who employ no more than three workers; families with...
Those prospects have excited something resembling panic among many employers. A few factories in the Los Angeles area are already laying off workers they suspect may be in the U.S. illegally. Some bosses fear they may be fined for hiring workers who present bogus credentials. These executives vow to be choosy about whom they employ, even at the risk of provoking antidiscrimination suits by rejected minority applicants. "Let 'em sue," says Arnold Schwedock, executive director of the New York-based Ladies Apparel Contractors Association. "Concern about penalties comes first...