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...years ago, a mere 35,000 women were in uniform, making up 1% of the nation's military personnel. In fact, they were limited by law to a maximum of 2% until that ceiling was abolished in 1969 because of the shortages caused by Viet Nam and the expanding role of women in the labor force. Today some 110,000 women constitute 5.5% of the services' 2 million uniformed members. Some 15,800 of the women are officers. It is projected that five years from now nearly 220,000 women will provide more than 10% of the armed...
...encourage risk-taking investment, taxpayers can exclude completely "from their taxable earnings 60%, instead of the current 50%, of the gains realized from the sale of capital assets; in no case will an investor have to pay more than 28% taxes on capital gains, a cut from the present maximum...
...earlier proposal, the new ordinance does not specify the cost of licensing the machines. Formerly, the ordinance caled for a lincensing fee of $250 per machine. The city solictor's office realized, however, that such a few would be uncositutional, because state law permits licenses to cost a maximum of $20 per machine...
...Coop is reaching a point of maximum returns, which accounts for the leveling off in the increase in rebates," Karlo J. Duvnjak '80, a member of the Coop's board of directors said last night...
...included rather pedestrian film reports on acne treatment and the plight of a justifiably obscure rock band trying to bust onto the charts. Things may pick up a bit, though. The next scheduled offering, for example, includes a harrowing look at juvenile offenders trying to survive in an adult maximum-security prison and a zany profile of the mostly middle-aged men who put out Mad magazine. Future subjects sound promising too: football injuries, school censorship of dirty words, teen-age pregnancy, cheerleading, how rock concerts damage eardrums...