Word: heavier
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...insure further that the middle-and lower-classes would not benefit from his economic scheme, Ford has additionally requested a sizable increase in federal fuel tax. This regressive measure, by weighing a proportionately heavier burden on the poor than on the rich, would compound the detrimental effect of Ford's rebate plan on lower- and middle-class families. Even Ford's Federal Energy Administration acknowledges that the proposed energy tax would far outweigh the proposed tax rebate--except, not surprisingly, for the wealthy. The F.E.A. estimates that Ford's tax will increase fuel costs for a family of four between...
Meanwhile, back in this country, Americans will bear an increasing brunt of this international redistribution of income. Right now, with the marked concentration of wealth that characterizes American society, some sectors of the population bear a much heavier burden than others. But it is likely that all groups will be continually exposed to the effects of the shrinking dollar. The recession that government and business leaders term temporary could very likely lengthen into a permanent decline in the American standard of living...
...genuinely drastic redistribution of wealth ever undertaken in an industrial Western democracy. Labour is proposing a tax of up to 5 per cent a year on aggregates of wealth, about twice the level of Norway (the next highest one in Europe). In actuality the tax will be far heavier than any in Europe, since most European countries limit taxes to a set proportion of income. The 100,000 richest men in Britain could expect to pay more than 100 per cent of their annual income in taxes...
...element No. 94 (plutonium). The Berkeley scientists used a newly beefed-up particle accelerator called Super-HILAC (for heavy ion linear accelerator) to send nuclei of oxygen atoms barreling into another artificial element, californium. As occasional collisions occurred between the oxygen and californium nuclei, they fused and formed the heavier nucleus of element 106-but not for long. Like most artificial elements, No. 106 is extremely unstable. It has a half-life of only nine-tenths of a second-that is, half of its atoms will break apart into simpler atoms in that brief span of time. Thus the substance...
...small cars the company has ever made." That is an understatement, and it could apply as well to much of the rest of the industry. Before the year is out, all the automakers will be loosing a herd of new "small" cars, some of which will be longer and heavier than a Mercedes 280, with which Ford executives like to compare the Granada. Not especially economical, Ford's two entries this week average at best 14 miles per gal. in city driving...