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...some areas, the House panel's plan is the same as that put forth by the Administration. Both, for example, want to repeal the investment tax credit, which currently enables companies to take immediate deductions of as much as 10% of spending on plant and equipment. Both proposals would also curtail the accelerated cost recovery system, which now enables businesses to depreciate their assets rapidly...
...grounds of conflict of interest, all legislators should be disqualified from submitting or voting on money-spending plans that primarily affect their home districts. Huge amounts of money could be saved by eliminating the many wasteful projects that are put forth solely to enhance a lawmaker's image at home. Issues could then be settled on their merit rather than for re-election purposes. Neal Rohrer Kingsburg, Calif...
Judging by the flurry of activity in the field, others apparently agree. Since the fall of 1984, scientific papers about superstrings have been streaming forth at an ever increasing rate that now averages 100 per month, and conferences centered around strings are becoming commonplace. Upon hearing of Schwarz and Green's latest breakthrough in string theory, says Steven Weinberg, a physicist at the University of Texas, "I dropped everything I was doing, including several books I was working on, and started learning everything I could about string theory." That task is far from trivial. "The mathematics," he concedes, "is very...
...George Shultz. But when Sokolov handed him a lengthy letter from Mikhail Gorbachev to Ronald Reagan, Shultz became the first man in official Washington to be startled by a sweeping and unexpected new arms-control proposal. It was studded with ambiguities and potentially risky approaches, but it also set forth a bold schedule for making the world nuclear-free and left the Administration scrambling for a way to respond. One quick reading of the letter sent Shultz straight to the White House...
Gorbachev's initiative will make it ever more difficult for Reagan to put forth a public case for pursuing his Star Wars program. Said the Soviet leader: "Instead of wasting the next ten to 15 years by developing new weapons in space, allegedly designed to make nuclear arms useless, would it not be more sensible to eliminate those arms?" Reagan is caught in a public relations bind: it will be difficult for him to explain convincingly why he is prepared to scuttle a plan to rid the world of nuclear missiles by insisting on the right to build a defensive...