Word: market
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CORPORATE executives who ordinarily trumpet the glories of the free market have few qualms about defending this massive subsidy and distortion of the free market. They say that business deals wouldn't happen if companies couldn't stick the taxpayers with part of the cost of their power lunches...
...partner at the investment firm Touche Ross said, "Any time the after-tax consequences are greater, management looks harder at expenses." In other words, if Maison Robert's corporate customers couldn't deduct their $16 desserts, Maison Robert would have to lower its prices. That's what the free market is all about...
...corporate America just can't break its addiction to taxpayer-financed perks, whether they contribute to good business or not. I will believe that American corporations are serious about their free-market rhetoric on the same day they refuse to take their market distorting T and E deductions...
...These are appreciated, but being a worker and a man of concrete work, I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now," said the mustachioed 46-year-old former shipyard electrician...
Walesa arrived in Washington, D.C. on Monday for a four-day visit marked by numerous awards and a torrent of praise as Poland and other East European nations rapidly institute democratic and market reforms...