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Japanese tax laws are fairly lenient. Doctors, for example, are allowed to deduct 72% of their incomes, and the first $13,000 invested in postal-savings accounts earn tax-free interest. But whenever the authorities start investigating, they make sad discoveries. An audit of 50 people who had registered new luxury cars worth $40,000 or more, for instance, found that eleven reported having no income at all. Of 116 cram schools that help Tokyo children pass their exams, 109 were discovered to be concealing income. And last week the national Tax Administration Agency said it had audited 24 prosperous...
Ferguson and Wilson now face a $100 fine and up to a year in jail. But college students, for many of whom a care package is the vital link with home, can imagine a more fitting punishment for their crime: the ignominious court-postal. The U.S. Postal Service patches are ripped off the shoulders of the sweaters of the disgraced pair. Their scales and scotch-tape dispensers are smashed, and they are demoted to forever sorting mail without zip codes in the Dead Letter Office. The wretches fall to their knees and beg for lenience, but their judges are firm...
...best-known attribute, but Uncle Sam is becoming one of the greatest salesmen since P.T Barnum. Switch on a radio or TV set, flip through a newspaper or magazine, and there he is, in one guise or another. Here is the U.S. Postal Service, sniping at Federal Express, Emery, Purolator and other private-sector small-package carriers, boasting that it can do just as competent a job and make mailers "look good for less." Here is the U.S. Army invading the air waves with its stirring jingle, "Be all that you can be," aiming it especially at June high school...
...fire and rocket-propelled grenades, they devastated the puny garrison, killing or wounding four policemen and capturing or driving away the rest. The guerrillas sacked and burned Berlin's pharmacies and dry-goods stores, robbed the only local bank of $160,000, and rocketed the town's postal and telex offices. Local residents were herded into the central municipal plaza and harangued with propaganda and recruitment speeches...
When Satellite Based Systems begins operations overseas...no longer will transnational enterprises be reliant on national postal, telegraph and telephone authorities for any of their information needs, removing the last link in their activities susceptible to government scrutiny and action...