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Last year's version of the resolution received just over 3-per-cent approval at Mobil's annual meeting, which enabled it to be autornatically reconsidered this year...
...per-cent sure that they'll be ready." Kleinfelder said of her squad. "Knowing what to expect from the other teams and being ready for that will be the important thing...
...ACSR favored an identical resolution of Mobil stockholders last year. but the Corporation abstained on the proposal, which ultimately gained just over 3-per-cent approval at Mobil-enough to be automatically resubmitted for consideration this year...
...third, more recent experience with tax cutting was the Steiger Amendment. Passed over Jimmy Carter's objections in 1978, it lowered the capital gains tax from 49 to 28 per cent. Opponents of the amendment projected a 30-per-cent revenue loss in 1979. The actual result: a 20 per cent increase in tax revenues at the lower rate...
...selective clubs, something akin to the "100-per-cent rule" of 1958 still exists. If, during Bicker week, a male student completes all his interviews, at all the clubs, he is assured a "hat bid"--one of the clubs must offer him membership. But this rule does not apply to women, who are eligible for only two of the selective clubs...