Word: mayers
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Special benefits have been a feature of tax law for generations. They were long known as Louis B. Mayer rules because one of the first applied only to that Hollywood mogul. Nowadays they go by the name of transition rules, because they mainly keep open for a while, and for specific companies, tax loopholes that Congress is closing for everybody else. Collectively, the transition rules proposed by the Finance Committee would cost the Federal Government $5.5 billion in lost taxes, a relative pittance compared with the $25 billion of special favors in the bill passed by the House last year...
...draft should bring the state within a few months of meeting the federally mandated deadlines, said Mayer...
...regulations in their present form still allow for extensive public review of the siting process, and current law requires a popular vote to approve the final site, Mayer said...
...commission's lawmakers, environmental activists and industry representatives incorporated Harvard's suggestion into the regulatory draft adopted yesterday, said Diane E. Mayer, associate director of the commission. The draft will be revised and sent to the legislature in about a month...
Maxwell House coffee. Log Cabin syrup. Oscar Mayer hot dogs. Jell-O. Birds Eye peas. From breakfast to dinner, millions of Americans eat General Foods products every day, never realizing that one company makes them all. While its products are household names, the firm, which had sales during its last fiscal year of $9 billion, is low-keyed, given to such simple boasts as "We sell more kinds of food and more of it." That tone may soon change. Last week General Foods was taken over by Philip Morris (1984 revenues: $13.8 billion), whose Marlboro man and Virginia Slims woman...