Word: investments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...films, like D'Urville Martin, admit the films are low quality. But Martin claims: "Black films are getting better." He attributes the poor quality of the films to a lack of initial capital from the black community. "Some of these people who are criticizing black movies have money to invest in black films," he complained. "But it's impossible to get any money out of them for a black film...
...plot of a panoramic historical novel is fixed. Having selected an event, the sequence of actions involved can only be slightly bent in the interest of artistic validity, and under the circumstances Solzhenitsyn's task is to develop viable characters and invest the chaotic activities in which he deals with some meaning...
...abstraction, radicals who invoked one thinker or another to justify manipulating the lives of others. It grieved me because I felt their end was good as indeed. Krishna's followers may do good work. So do the Libertanians invoke the individual as God. So do the bearers of tradition invest Harvard with that sanctity...
Supporters of Nixon's position counter that raising capital gains taxes will discourage rich and middle-income people from investing their savings. Economist Pierre Rinfret, a Nixon spokesman, insists that the U.S. already has the highest capital gains taxes in the industrial world, and that stiffening them further will "penalize the capital formation without which we don't grow." David Grove, a nonpartisan member of TIME'S Board of Economists, worries that the rich will not only invest less but will not indulge in risky bankrolling of promising new companies and will instead stick to blue chips...
Some McGovernites concede that investment may be reduced, but contend that the effect will be so small as to constitute a minor price to pay for greater tax equity. The impact, they say, will be largely offset by the Senator's proposal to change the top tax rate on all kinds of income to 48%; that will enable affluent people to keep more of their incomes, especially from rents, interest and dividends, and thus give them more cash to invest. Taxing capital gains at death will force into the marketplace much money now tied up in stocks and property...