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...certain base of equity. This would help start-ups a lot. It would help emerging companies reinvest cash back into their businesses and stimulate growth. For it to work, the Federal Government and probably the state governments would have to set some sort of cap or float ceiling noting where that tax would start and how it would rise. It would probably have to vary by industry, because some businesses are more capital-intensive than others...
...years back in North Carolina, where he was a visiting professor of logistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was waiting for a lumbering freight train to cross the road in front of him when the tedium caused him to start thinking about ways to float heavy machinery over land. He began hitting up German logistics companies for capital to build something to do just that. "Using conventional means, it takes about 60 days and costs about $250,000 to haul 140 tons of freight from Germany to Kazakhstan," Von Gablenz says. "With the CargoLifter...
...carouse in the French Quarter. While the grimmest of the doomsayers warn that New Orleans could be the next Atlantis, some laid-back residents are saying that it could just as easily become the next Venice and that after the deluge, the good times won't roll--they'll float...
Spring in Minnesota and the first lawn mowing and first outdoor supper, and then it's spring prom. White limos the size of trawlers float up to a hotel marquee and disgorge boys in black tuxes and girls in black or turquoise or tangerine or emerald, and they troop in through the revolving doors, prepared to execute a waltz and make small talk if necessary...
...attended the general managers' winter meetings and began to float his resume around, and he remembers the hardship of trying to find work in the business...