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...Conservation Act, cars should average 27.5 m.p.g., vs. the gas-guzzling 14 m.p.g. that was the norm when the law was passed. Now the September deadline looms, and only Chrysler's fleet can meet the standard. Ford's cars will average 25.9 m.p.g., GM's 25.1. Technically, the two largest carmakers could face fines of up to $400 million in the case of GM and $80 million for Ford...
...theory that income owed in taxes to state and local authorities should not be taxed again, Washington has traditionally allowed taxpayers to deduct those funds from their federal total. For those who itemize their deductions, especially if they live in a state with high taxes, the largest single write- off on their federal return is often the combined total of state and local taxes on income, real estate and retail sales. Residents of New York State who took the deduction in 1982, for example, saved an average of nearly $1,300 on their federal tax bill. Not coincidentally, the Empire...
...dreamed up that coalition are trying to form a congressional link between Texas (oil and gas) and New York (deductibility of state and local taxes). "We'd have 61 votes in the House," says Dan Dutko of the Council for a Secure America. "It would be by far the largest single bloc on the issue." Congress cannot afford to make too many concessions, because for every deduction they put back into the tax code, they must take one out to keep the package revenue neutral. Rostenkowski did not rule out seeking higher rates than the President proposed. But that risks...
...industry has drawn more fire than the defense business. General Electric, the sixth-largest U.S. military contractor, pleaded guilty last month to defrauding the Air Force of $800,000 in 1980 on a Minuteman missile project. The company agreed to pay fines and penalties of more than $2 million. The Navy two weeks ago canceled a pair of contracts with General Dynamics, the third-largest military supplier, and suspended the signing of new ones with two of the company's divisions, which build submarines and missiles. The Pentagon says that General Dynamics has overcharged the Government at least $75 million...
While most professors present the facts cut and dry, a handful of scholars go out of their way to make their classes "fun." And while many courses draw huge crowds because they are noted "guts," and while many of the introductory courses till the largest lecture halls, there are a few courses at Harvard that students flock to simply because they are "fun" to attend...