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...Administration is also considering a lid of $120 a month on the tax-deductible health-insurance premiums that an employer can pay for each worker, and perhaps letting individual taxpayers deduct only medical expenses that exceed 10% of annual income, vs. 3% now. That proposal is politically explosive, since it would raise the tax bills of people who are hard-pressed by illness. The rationale: medical inflation is being fanned because the underwriting of bills by private insurers or the Government gives neither hospitals, doctors nor patients any incentive to hold down costs. Another possible proposal: eliminating the deductions that...
...some 400,000 unionized workers in an attempt to encourage them to hold down demands. A pointed message in the presentation: American labor costs are $8 per hr. more than in Japan, and U.S. firms can only compete if they can narrow that gap. GM wants to put a lid on automatic cost of living allowances, increase employee contributions to health plans, and reduce holiday and vacation time. U.A.W. members now receive $19.65 per hr. in wages and fringe benefts and get 43 paid days off a year...
That didn't matter, however, because freshman forward Wendy Joseph's bucket and Long's layup underneath the basket all but sealed the lid on Harvard's first victory of the 1981-82 campaign...
...first six-pointer of the day. On the first play of the second half, St. Pierre scrambled and returned a kick-off 80 yards for the score to put the Eliot eleven ahead 12-0. And, late in the game, Coatesworth snagged another St. Pierre throw to seal the lid on an outmatched Leverett...
...call from the young woman's sister in Belfast brought them here. She called to say that in Ulster's unfashionable ghettos the sound of trashcan lid on pavement could be heard again. Joe McDonnell (14 years, handgun possession) had died at the Long Kesh prison after 54 days without food...