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CONSIDERING THAT THE President just signed a bill that contains generous amnesty provisions, it seems entirely innappropriate to crack down on H-1 immigrants. It is safe to assume that Congress did not intend to create a strange and unfair dichotomy between illegal and legal aliens and merely overlooked this...
"He knows the tax code," William Proxmire once said of Long, "as thoroughly as the Pope knows the Lord's Prayer." As head of the Finance Committee, Long defended tax laws beneficial to Louisiana's oil and gas industry, which no doubt also benefited him, as he inherited considerable oil...
In contrast to the new capital gains provision, other parts of the tax law could help boost stock prices. It contains sections, for example, that will make mergers and acquisitions somewhat less attractive in 1987 by generally increasing the taxes that buyers of companies have to pay after the transactions...
American truck drivers like to think of themselves as kings of the road, but a disturbing number have become mobile menaces, causing truck accidents on interstates to rise from 31,000 in 1983 to 39,000 last year. A provision inserted into the Anti-Drug Abuse Act passed by Congress...
Gorbachev set the stage for the grim Sunday denouement on Saturday morning when he plucked a typewritten page from his briefcase. The paper summarized his wide-ranging set of new proposals, including cutting the strategic arsenals of both sides by 50% and eliminating intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) from Europe...