Word: letting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just back from living in Egypt, I was very pleasantly surprised by your open-minded, sensitive, even courageous reporting on Islam. I was inspired by what I saw of the Islamic way, a way that allows people to live and let live, apparently secure in the knowledge that Allah is with them and with all others they meet. Suzanne Grenager...
...companies, however, the credits produce a perversely beneficial result. Instead of simply holding their U.S. tax liability to the nation's corporate rate of 46%, which is what they are intended to do, the credits sometimes let companies pay no taxes at all on their foreign profits. The basic reason: if a company has to pay taxes of more than 46% on its profits in a foreign country, the excess is counted as a credit. Then the company can use the credit to reduce or even totally wipe out income taxes owed...
...Johnson and Sam Rayburn of Texas and Oklahoma's Robert Kerr are long gone. Now the industry has to deal instead with all 535 members of the House and Senate. Explains one leading oil lobbyist: "The industry realizes that it has to speak to everyone and it tries. We let the facts speak for themselves...
...good tiding comes from the "primitive" peoples of the world, who, it seems, are bent on saving us from ourselves. In the U.S.. Native Americans own most of the land under which lies our uranium supplies, essential to the nuclear fuel cycle, and Indians are unwilling to let the federal government go on mining the stuff. The government of course, is looking for a way around the rules. The Australian aborigines also find themselves sitting on much of Australia's potential uranium supply. Like the Native Americans, they consider these uranium mountains sacred. They even have a legend about...
...repeat earlier arguments. Let me just say as I see it, the source of dissatisfaction among those who are very concerned about this issue is not that Harvard has not adopted a policy of immediate and blanket withdrawal, divestiture, excuse me. Indeed, many think that's probably unwise. I think what unites people is the concern that the direction of Harvard policy is pointed the wrong way. This I think is illustrated very clearly in the ACSR reports of last March and this January. I think what we're looking for is a more aggressive, forward posture on behalf...