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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...added tax from cutting into his profit margin. At a rate of 10 per cent, the VAT collects a total of $5 off a case of wine which eventually sells for $50. It serves the same function as a sales tax. But instead of taking all the money in one final sale, the VAT collects its taxes in nibbles--a dollar here and a dollar there...
...POLITICIANS, the VAT has one fabulous advantage over a sales tax. It's hidden. Though Long and Ullman both admit that its costs will be passed onto consumers, the VAT will not look like a surcharge on sales. Instead it will be incorporated in the list prices of all goods. Consequently, most consumers who spend $50 on a case of wine will have no idea that their purchase is really worth only $45 but that the government tax has upped production and distribution costs...
While Crimson fans sweated as the Terriers, seemingly always on the verge of scoring, mounted attack after attack at the Crimson net, Harvard goaltender Wade Lau dived, reached, lunged, and grabbed one apparent goal after another, keeping the Crimson alive with his spectacular play...
Roaring in anticipation of the coming Terrier goal, the viewer-capacity crowd slumped back in their seats again and again as Lau rose to the occasion. Stopping two-on-one's, three-on-two's and once even a three-on-one, Lau recorded 11 saves in the first period and 29 overall...
...What we really need is a good dose of good will," Skocpol said, but added he regarded Rosovsky's proposal as potentially influential because Rosovsky will "intervene at the one level where there is a chance of influencing" affirmative action...