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...capital gains, a much lower rate of 20%. So it makes sense for companies to use their cash to buy back stock. Yes, a bear market could devour this strategy. But as long as the tax code clearly favors capital gains, dividends will dwindle--and nothing would make that plainer than a healthy blue chip wiping out its dividend altogether...
...main reason they want immunity is to save money. But they also want to save face. In every tobacco lawsuit, plaintiffs can demand and make public the industry's internal documents, even as a condition of cases settled out of court. Just how damaging those disclosures can be is plainer than ever since last week, when a California suit opened a flood of secret industry papers. What many of them seem to show is the second largest U.S. cigarette maker scheming like mad to lure smokers as young...
...reminiscent of the well-loved but invalid FDR. Costuming by Holly Maples (a B.U. student) also lends a hand to creating the atmosphere of America 50 years ago: for the wealthy ladies, dresses you'd expect to see on Greta Garbo; for the less affluent girls, simpler, plainer dresses suitable for Betty Crocker. The most charming detail is the plaid suitcases that were the rage in the 1940s, carried by characters costumed as traveling salespeople...
...Already torn over the wisdom of engaging in a negotiation that will require Israel to give up most or all of the Golan Heights at a time when Israelis are still digesting territorial concessions to the Palestinians, the government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was looking for a bolder, plainer statement of Syrian intentions. The usually optimistic Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres, found the public remarks "too positive to be disappointing, but too general to be satisfactory...
...strategy of the Labour effort was far plainer. Using the slogan "It's Time for Change," the party played its trump card -- the recession -- to good advantage. Labourites attacked the Tories for insufficient school funding, delays in the care offered by the National Health Service, and high unemployment. Though Kinnock displays a sharp tongue in House of Commons debates, he has a penchant for obscure verbal meanderings when campaigning; a platoon of media advisers and spin doctors limited Kinnock's appearances and oversaw his every move...