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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Small companies have special needs, Levitt argues. Government regulations are an especially heavy burden on them. By Levitt's reckoning, the cost of complying with environmental, safety and other rules comes to $32 per $100,000 of sales for companies with less than $100 million in revenues, vs. $4 for larger corporations. Because small companies are not as well known and therefore need to broaden their shareholder base and increase ownership of their stock, they prefer cuts in capital gains taxes rather than the increased depreciation allowances advocated by big companies. Says Levitt: "Our kinds of companies...
Unfortunately for the beleaguered utility, its film may now need some editing. For the past four months, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), among others, has been looking into the causes and effects of the nation's worst commercial reactor accident. Last week, in a report that is sure to have wide repercussions, NRC staff investigators said that the most serious aspects of the mishap were almost certainly due to human error. And though they acknowledged that the radiation level was low, they said that one burst was greater than any previously revealed...
...firm buys. At the Dallas Times Herald, for example, the editorial budget has been doubled and news columns increased by 30% since Times Mirror took over in 1969. Says David Laventhol, publisher of Long Island's Newsday, acquired in 1970: "Chandler has a good sense of the need for local autonomy...
...seems to have been to clear the air, so that the sexuality of the very young can now be dealt with without the eye rolling formerly considered appropriate to the violation of a taboo. Thus a distortion that falsified whole characterizations has been removed. To see the difference, one need only watch television drama, where the taboo still holds...
...film, speaking a moody narration, much of which is her own improvisation: "From the time the sun went up, till it went down, theys was workin' all the time . . . Just keep goin'. If you didn't work, they'd ship you right out of there. They don't need ya. They can always get somebody else." The gritty, childish voice holds the film together. Originally, the narration was to have been spoken by Brooke Adams, the older actress who plays Gere's lover. But Days of Heaven came to be Linda's film...