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...only is the VAT regressive--it is also very complicated. In Europe it has earned a reputation for simplicity only because it replaced a vastly more complex system of business turnover taxes. But in the United States experts predict that the VAT will force businessmen to spend much more time keeping their ledgers in order. By creating more paperwork, the VAT may push marginally profitable enterprises out of business...
...translation of the exam and analyses of the subject areas are available from the U.S. Office of Education (USOE), which recently published "The 1978 National College Entrance Exam in the People's Republic of China," which insiders predict will soon be a major motion picture...
Hansen said ethanol currently costs about $1.61 a gallon, but that experts working on increasing the efficienty of the distillation process predict the cost will eventually be 85 cents a gallon or lower...
...voter, it is tempting to go into hibernation from now until election day. Campaign promises, after all, have never been an accurate way to predict presidential performance. In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt campaigned for a balanced budget. In 1964, Lyndon Johnson won election as the candidate of peace. In 1972, Dick Nixon promised to take crime off the streets. In 1976, Carter--now father of the Department of Education, supporter of the M-X missile and across the board increases in military spending--promised to be a fiscal conservative...
...KCIA leaders shared a revulsion against the growing personal influence of Cha, Park's arrogant, all-purpose adviser as well as his chief security officer. Kim had a personal grudge against Cha because he had repeatedly criticized the KCIA'S failures to prevent or even predict political unrest. For their part, the army officers resented the way that Cha, a lowly ex-lieutenant colonel, blithely ignored the military command system by issuing direct orders to division-level commanders...