Word: investments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration official, "is that Ford will probably end up recommending many of Sawhill's proposals by next June." If the President is still unwilling to ask for a gasoline tax, he might possibly accept mandatory measures to discourage auto travel or tax credits for homeowners who invest in better insulation or storm windows. In fact, the Administration has little choice but to push conservation harder; there is not much chance of increasing U.S. energy production enough in the next three years or so to reduce the heavy drain that the high price of foreign oil is imposing...
...with a twist. Robbins' hero, Baydr Al Fay, is really a Jew-a changeling, by Allah! At 40, he is one of the world's richest men, traveling constantly between banking centers to invest Arab oil revenues. Like other Robbins figments, Baydr is also an international satyr whose feats are topped only by those of his insatiable California-born wife. (Yes, Hollywood is at work on the movie...
...House Committee on Foreign Affairs reported in July that "if the U.S. is going to continue to provide economic and military assistance to South Vietnam it makes no sense to exclude incentives for private American companies to invest in that country. The stimulation of private investment is needed to help South Vietnam's movement toward economic self-sufficiency as well as to cushion reductions in grant assistance programs." Corporations have not, however, been scrambling for these incentives because of Thieu's aggression against the PRG which, if anything, has made investment seem much less attractive...
...Tougher FHA standards for insulation in homes, plus easy credit for builders, homeowners and businessmen who invest in better insulation...
...PALESTINIAN STATE. If the Arabs can afford to give loans and invest in the U.S., the richest country in the world, let us expect them to help their Palestinian brothers economically. In the first years of the national authority in Palestine, we will hold elections so that our people can vote for the system of life they want. The P.L.O. will run the country before the elections, and the P.L.O. will run it after the elections, because the P.L.O. is the people...