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...Mario Montuoro, cash payoffs usually mean trouble. His accusation that Raymond Donovan was present when a $2,000 bribe was paid to a union leader is at the heart of a special prosecutor's investigation of the Labor Secretary and has prompted Donovan to call him a "damnable, contemptible liar." Montuoro's testimony about misuse of union funds led to the conviction of his union's president on tax evasion charges, cost him his job and reportedly caused a Mafia contract to be put out on his life. All told, his crusade against labor union corruption...
...month by SRI International, a California think tank, found that miracle drugs like interferon, which may be used to treat cancer, will not be available in commercial quantities until 1990. Development of agricultural products that could be used to increase food production may take even longer. Thus the investment payoff from such wonder products is still far in the future...
Unlike gold prospectors, novelists must pick nuggets out of their heads. Both occupations seem to attract similar characters: stubborn loners who sacrifice time and ties for a big elusive payoff. John A. Williams, 56, has written more than a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction without striking a mother lode. He is a good writer with a big theme: being black in America. By now every honest citizen should know that racism is a national birth defect, which, in the absence of a cure, requires ceaseless applications of justice. This cry is implicit in Williams' work, though most readers...
...however, Congress rolled back the capital gains tax rate to 28%. With the potential payoff increased, investors were again willing to take a risk. Last year $1.3 billion in venture funds was accumulated, more than 100 times the amount of only six years earlier...
...payoff for this pain: a forecast that budget deficits will drop from around $100 billion this fiscal year to a range of $60 billion to $80 billion in fiscal 1983, and $40 billion to $60 billion by 1984. Earlier projections of a 1983 deficit of more than $150 billion had frightened not only Washington but Wall Street and the nation as well...