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Publicly, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal calls that proposal "arbitrary and capricious." Privately, a White House aide fumes: "You try to put together the best plan you can, and then Al Ullman goes off the deep end with some crazy idea of his own." Carter's men argue that the proposal would unfairly benefit employers who are going to increase their payrolls anyway, tax break or no, and would encourage the wrong kind of hiring-since a company could cut its taxes just as much by employing a part-time worker at $4,200 as it could by adding...
...automotive and aircraft parts, housebuilding materials, metalworking tools and many other things, is a nononsense, tightly reined outfit. It made money throughout the recession and stacked up just under $3 billion in sales last fiscal year. Agee, who was named the company's chairman last December after Michael Blumenthal was selected to be Jimmy Carter's Treasury Secretary, is a tested and talented manager and financial man-as he tells anyone who asks. Practically the only thing he is touchy about is his age: businessmen, Wall Streeters and journalists often remark how unusual...
OVER THE PAST ten months Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis has done what many political experts thought was impossible. He reconciled his administration and himself to the state legislative leadership, mollified the press, and convinced people he would be more than just a one term governor. State Sen. Alan Sisitsky, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a vocal Dukakis critic remarked last week that "conventional wisdom says he can not be defeated" for re-election...
...several places in America B.C. Fell writes of "bronze" weapons that were supposedly imported from the Old World in ancient times. However, Harvard archeologists Stephen Williams, Jeffrey Brain, and Michael Roberts all say that Fell's "bronze" weapons are actually American copper of native origin. Brain says laboratory tests at MIT established that fact, and he adds that no bronze objects of ancient origin have ever been found in North America...
...enterprise into Asia related programs, and thus perhaps fulfill a broader, and much needed, educational purpose? (As a top economic power, Japan is of course something of an exception to the foregoing rough line of reasoning, a line prompted rather by the pledges coming from Hong Kong and Taiwan.) Michael R. Martin GSAS