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...that on tax shelters [Dec. 4]. I would guess that most of us think of them as a way for old folks on deflated incomes to buy municipal bonds and save a few tax dollars. Now it appears that it is a method for conniving lawyers and those with know-how to reap undeserved profits while depriving the rest of us of revenue that should have been used for our monumental governmental deficits...
Perhaps so, but the skills and know-how of the Steptoe-Edwards team are almost universally acclaimed, even if its inclination toward secrecy is not. Silver-haired and elegant, Steptoe is a pioneer in the use of laparoscopy, a technique for exploring the abdomen and observing the reproductive tract by means of a long, thin telescope equipped with a fiber optics light. He is also an impeccable dresser, enjoys watching cricket and is a fine organist. In the words of a colleague, he is "a man of character and determination who if someone is speaking nonsense is perfectly willing...
...Dior's management and the French government is that the prestigious label remain in French hands. "You can't separate the Christian Dior image from France's," says Rouet. "When an American woman pays for the Dior label, she wants to know that there is French know-how and style behind...
...treaty is a curious mixture of cynicism and conviction. After a period of many setbacks overseas. Americans have been in no mood to accept what seemed to be another reversal. Moreover, the canal is fixed in the popular imagination as a memorable achievement of American vigor and know-how. Why, people asked, should it be given away under any circumstances? There were reasonable answers to such a question, but they were not provided by the superpatriots of the hardcore right wing, who thought they had a sure-fire issue and promptly started paganda barrage has often made a hash...
...black labor force, so any improvement in American labor practices will have virtually no effect on the great mass of South African blacks. The ACSR almost completely disregards the larger, more overarching ways in which these companies provide crucial support to the Vorster government, by supplying strategic materials, technological know-how, tax revenues and much-needed foreign reserves...