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Reagan had merely requested speeding up the schedule for depreciation write-offs, but the Democrats approved a measure that would allow some businesses to deduct the cost of new equipment in the year purchases were made, a move designed to encourage investment. They also voted a gradual reduction in the top corporate tax rate from 46% to 34%, very much in line with White House proposals. After the committee votes, one Administration official observed: "If they move toward us any closer, maybe we should just adopt their bill and declare victory...
...expanded allowances of about 25% for the aged, handicapped and poor. Then followed a decree calling for a mandatory fifth week of paid vacation for all salaried workers. On June 10, the government set up a committee of business and union leaders to draft a plan for a gradual shortening of the work week to 35 hours by 1985. Simultaneously came the announcement of nearly 54,000 new government jobs and a reform of the French tax system that would impose surtaxes on company expense accounts and high salaries. And last week the government unveiled a plan to aid small...
...first volume of Ginzburg's memoirs, published in the U.S. in 1967. There, she began recounting the 18 years she spent in the Gulag, mostly in the Arctic death camps of Kolyma. In this, the second volume, Ginzburg, who died in 1977, picked up her story about "the gradual transformation of a naive young Communist idealist into someone who had tasted unforgettably the fruits of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil...
...gain the experience and publishing records the University expects of its tenured faculty, administrators say, more and more women will recieve tenure. Still, administrators like Nancy Randolph, special assistant to the president for affirmative action, caution that the process of assimilating women into tenured spots will be protracted and gradual. "You're not going to get a significant percentage change for many, many, many years," especially with the slow pace at which tenure spots are vacated, Randolph says. John D. Montgomery, chairman of the Government Department, also notes that many women with Ph.D's in his field now choose government...
There may now be some rich alumni so upset at gradual divestment or at liberal students that they will refuse to contribute. That too would be an irresponsible action to punish the entire University community because of particular policies the Corporation espouses. In the long run, single-issue billfold politics--of any perspective--only hurt the students and diminish the University...