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...years, stores have used less obtrusive forms of co-advertising, called co-oping, in their catalogs to offset the rising costs of postage and printing. An advertiser showing a Christian Dior dress, say, often shares the costs fifty-fifty with the store. Dallas-based Neiman-Marcus carries no ads in its catalogs, but since 1981, it has sent a slick fashion magazine, now called NM, with features and ads free to its 900,000 active credit-card holders...
...past two years, Shelter Inc. has been combing the right Cambridge housing market in search of a building to offset the the city's growing homeless population. Although the group already operates a 20-bed overnight shelter on School St. and a 35-bed facility for families in Boston, Shelter Inc.'s directors recognized a pressing need for transitional housing in the Hub area. Such transitional shelters provide homeless men and women with a temporary residence for several months as they seek employment, gain income, and acquire a permanent home...
...experience of earning money is central to their delighted discovery of their own worth. Some 50% of immigrant women work, about the same as U.S. women. Even for those who have traded their white-collar jobs at home for blue-collar jobs here, the drop in status is offset by the satisfaction of a significant rise in income and the hope of moving on. Anna Cruz-Vasquez is 56 and divorced. She came alone from the Dominican Republic in 1977 and with a garment-industry job that has never paid % more than $130 a week has managed to send...
...hideous snarl. By Treasury count, under the new plan, "more than 65 categories of preferential tax treatment would be eliminated or curtailed." Just describing what they are is no easy task. Another reason is that the plan is balanced on a knife edge to make it "revenue neutral." To offset the sweeping reductions in individual and corporate tax rates, Treasury planners had to come up with some complicated revenue-raising ideas. One particularly involved provision would tax businesses on sums they had deducted under current depreciation rules. It was added just days before the package was announced largely because...
Those savings, though, will be at least partly offset by a long-debated federal access charge of $1 per month that begins showing up in June on phone bills of millions of Americans. The fee will increase to $2 next year. The surcharge will be given to local phone companies to help make up for the loss of subsidies from long-distance service that the Bell System formerly funneled to them so that they could keep down local phone costs...