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...ECONOMY. Reacting to various pressures, Carter increased the package of economic stimulants he is sending to Congress this week (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). He added tax breaks to stimulate hiring and investment by business and proposed that nearly every American be given a cash payment of $50 on the theory that this is needed to help kick up consumer spending. There is doubt whether these breaks and the rebates will have the desired result...
...Down Payment. The Temple Scroll is the longest of the Dead Sea Scrolls (28 ft. 3 in.) and perhaps the most important of the entire collection, Yadin told TIME last week. He first heard about it in 1961 from an anonymous agent representing the dealer in Bethlehem, then inaccessible to Israeli scholars because it was part of Jordan. Even though Yadin did not know exactly what he was buying, he offered to pay $130,000, only to have the agent vanish -along with a down payment of $10,000. After the army officer obtained the scroll in 1967, Yadin negotiated...
...know grabbed him on a humid August night last year as he was parking his car at his mother's estate in Purchase, N.Y. Later, his captors sent his father first a ransom letter then tape recordings made by Bronfman relaying impassioned pleas for payment. Eventually, the elder Bronfman took two plastic bags containing $2.3 million in cash to a deserted street in New York City's borough of Queens. A day later, police found Sam in a Brooklyn apartment, bound and gagged and guarded by Lynch...
...also his lawyer, in favor of his uncle, Vern Damico. Damico listened to a $5,000 bid from the National Enquirer, a $100,000 bid from David Susskind, and then accepted a more elaborate contract from Los Angeles Photographer and Entrepreneur Lawrence Schiller. For a $100,000 down payment, plus royalties, Schiller has arranged a package deal that includes a TV dramatization of Gilmore's life and death for ABC's Movie of the Week. As money comes in, along with celebrity, so do bills. Last week a Massachusetts insurance company filed suit against Gilmore to collect...
Epps said the University made an exception to this rule in the 1950s, when SAE satisfied officials that it was not tied to the national organization. SAE members can join the national organization for life with a one-time payment of $100, but they can belong locally without a national membership...