Word: petersons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what's right. He'd bring the young and the older generations closer in their way of looking at things." Another Independent for Nixon, Harold Jones, a welder from Rockford, Ill., adds: "McGovern sounds like he means what he says. No hanky-panky." Douglas Peterson, a Republican art educator from Highland Park, Mich., admits: "McGovern's campaign stuff is pretty good. I'm wavering. At first I was for Nixon. Now I'm considering...
...local communities for property tax relief, but he now promises unspecified modest.sums to reduce property taxes for the elderly only. Administration officials hint that they have in mind some other tax reforms that would encourage investment; these changes look like the opposite of McGovern's. Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson talks of cutting capital gains taxes. The idea is to allow investors to deduct certain sums representing the extent to which the real value of the gain has been reduced by inflation...
...will become a brisk, though hardly thriving business. Total purchases of both nations from each other, now running at a minuscule $200 million annually, are expected to triple over the next three years, with the U.S. coming out considerably ahead on the balance of payments. Commerce Secretary Peter G. Peterson, who signed the agreement with Soviet Trade Minister Nikolai S. Patolichev, said that the Russians are expected shortly to order $60 million worth of earth-moving equipment for excavation of their huge new Kama River truck factory. At week's end, as if to signify that such business deals...
...Administration's present plans call for financing for the proposed projects to come from alumni donations. Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for Alumni Affairs and Development, is currently pursuing one prospective donor who may give Harvard a contribution large enough to cover the cost of either project...
...women on big corporate boards also includes Chicago Lawyer Jewel Stradford Lafontant, a director of TWA and the Jewel Cos. grocery chain; and Girl Scouts Executive Director Cecily Cannan Selby, who is on the Avon and RCA boards. Last week Metropolitan Life Insurance named Barnard College President Martha E. Peterson for a directorship. They and other women who join boards are acquiring power in two ways. Aside from gaining the prestige and authority that have always gone with the job, directors of all companies today are being forced to take more active roles in company decisions. In several recent instances...