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...students say they are excited about the prospect of the additions to the house...
...should be clear by now that the post-tax cost of capital has relatively little influence on both the overall level of investment and the uses of invested funds. In fact, the greatest influence on investment is the prospect for pretax returns. The key questions concern how good a new idea is, how much of a market there is for a particular product and how productively it can be created. The issue -- as Clinton understands far better than Tsongas -- is how to make the entire economy more productive, not how the tax code can be jiggered to induce the wealthy...
Much as administrators may try to sugarcoat it with cute stories and happy talk, the Faculty's budget crisis--an $11.7 million deficit with the prospect of a widening gap between income and expenditures--will require serious work to mend...
...That prospect defies the early punditry that imprisoned Tsongas in the "second tier" of prospects. He is tunneling out of that dungeon with a gritty consistency that trashes conventional wisdom. His self-imposed "pro- business Democrat" label alienates many liberals, but Tsongas is gaining support among others by departing from party dogma. "They love employment," Tsongas says of traditional Democrats. "It's the employers they can't stand. They have never understood the link." Unions want a new law to protect the jobs of strikers. Tsongas opposes it on the ground that it would encourage confrontation. Most of the candidates...
...boat people. "The military believes it can get the U.S. to soften up the embargo even more," says a leading Haitian businessman. Last week, as the commander of the country's armed forces elevated to a top post a former police chief who was fired by Aristide, the prospect of the deposed President's return seemed more remote than ever...