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...would be inclined to forgo continued development of a mobile U.S. nuclear missile launcher (the MX) if the Soviet Union will abandon deployment of its track-mounted launcher (the SS-20). Such mobile launchers greatly complicate the job of detecting and destroying each other's missiles and are considered a destabilizing element in a policy of mutual deterrence...
...reduce their corporate income tax by an amount equal to 4% of the Social Security payroll taxes they pay, and continue to use the 10% investment tax credit. Companies wanting to spend heavily for new plant and equipment could take a 12% investment tax credit, but would have to forgo the Social Security credit...
...Marquette University Sociologist Wayne Youngquist pointed out, Carter "doesn't have a great reservoir of partisan feeling to draw on as a kind of cushion. He's going to have to produce." Added Theologian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago: "A lot of married couples forgo the honeymoon cruise and take up housekeeping right away. He's going to have to do that...
Most oil experts expect OPEC to re-establish a common price after its next scheduled meeting in July. But what price? One guess is that the majority eleven will forgo the additional 5% hike set for July, and the Saudis and the Emirates will move up from 5% to 10%. A minority view is that the eleven will be forced to cut their prices by such devices as discounts for crude with a high sulphur content, and the eventual increase will settle somewhere between 5% and 10%. Oilmen see only an outside chance of a price war between the Saudis...
...known faults: unnecessary surgery, the unforeseen long-term effects of certain "miracle" drugs, equipment malfunctions, malpractice. However justified, they add little if anything new to the case against modern medicine. Illich's attack is more telling when he takes up the extent to which medicine induces people to forgo control over their own lives in favor of getting as much treatment as they can. Says Illich: "Until proved healthy, the citizen is now presumed to be sick." The result, he points out, is "a morbid society that demands universal medicalization and a medical establishment that certifies universal morbidity...