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...action follows Carter's prediction that Congress will eventually enact the bulk of his energy program...
...start with, and you add onto that the 40 members who are concerned about textile imports, 18 to 20 members concerned with shoe imports, another 20 whose districts are affected by television and electronic imports, and about 100 that represent steel-manufacturing areas -you can bet that Congress will enact its own program next year if the President fails now, and it will be harsh...
...giving business a more generous investment tax credit, and easing the taxation of corporate dividends-but also taxing capital gains as ordinary income and cracking down on expense-account deductions. Businessmen are unsure of not only what the effects would be on their companies, but also whether Congress will enact the proposals favorable to them as well as those that are not. Their view, observes Washington University Professor Murray Weideribaum, is that on taxes "the feds giveth, and the feds taketh away...
...student of radio drama, and became a regular weekly visitor to our studio broadcast sessions of The Shadow, Nick Carter and The Sealed Book. I would give Fred the leftover scripts in exchange for cleaning up the used coffee containers of the cast. Fred and his chums would re-enact these scripts in his home with sound effects, etc. Anyone with such a head start was bound to make...
...same size Liberian-flag freighter. Further, critics say the bill is protectionist special-interest legislation, antagonistic to free trade and potentially disruptive to U.S. treaty relations with perhaps 30 other nations. But Carter is for the bill. Wooing labor support during the campaign, he said he would work to "enact and develop a national cargo policy that would assure our U.S.-flag merchant marine a fair share of all types of cargo." Reading that as a promise to support cargo preference, the maritime unions donated more than $100,000 to Carter's campaign...