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There were also a number of things going on in Washington that could bost businessmen billions of dollars, but no one knew for sure how many. Carter signed into law a measure increasing the $2.30 an hour minimum wage to $2.65 in 1978 and, by steps, to $3.35 in 1981. Congress wrangled over a Social Security tax increase that by 1982 could be draining a total of $180 billion a year from workers and their employers. The energy program was being debated by a House-Senate conference committee. With hard bargaining on the energy legislation about to begin this week...
Tough sentencing earned him the nickname "Maximum John," but now Watergate Judge John Sirica, 73, has stepped down from full-time duty on the federal court to handle only civil cases, which require no sentencing. "They're calling me 'Minimum John,' " joked the jurist. Although his new status of senior judge is a form of retirement, Sirica can keep his staff if he needs them. Apparently he will: he already has 130 civil suits on his new docket...
...where Ki] duffs allowed two weekly truckload should be sent. Complains William Rich owner of a Wellesley, Mass., insulation-installing firm: "I'm backed up four months Since July I have been getting 300 to 400 bags of fiber glass a month, and I need a minimum...
...cigarettes from low-tax to high-tax states is a victimless crime-a free-enterprise way to bring down prices. Lawmakers see it differently. This week a law goes into effect in Ohio that makes "buttlegging" of as little as $60 worth of smokes a felony punishable by a minimum six-month prison term for the first offense. Ohio thus joins eight other states in recognizing that cigarette smuggling is no mere misdemeanor but a crime that drains their treasuries of badly needed revenue...
Actually, a conservative Supreme Court soon seized upon the amendment to protect business interests, while down playing its racial objectives. State laws setting minimum wages and hours, for example, were initially declared violations of the due process "freedom of contract." More recently, the phrase "equal protection of the laws," long considered vague and toothless, has been dusted off to nullify a whole battery of practices not directly contemplated by the amendment's framers: malapportioned legislatures, residency requirements for voting and welfare, even some sex discrimination...