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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theory, it's fact. To say that equitable tax laws create a "self-defeating system" is ridiculous. As my article pointed out, legislators can restructure America's taxes to provide incentives for savings and investments without forcing wealthy tax-payers to leave the United States. The elimination of interest-rate ceilings on bank savings accounts or the establishment tax credits for money saved by consumers are just two possible strategies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VAT Again | 12/12/1979 | See Source »

Abrahamian said the Shah squandered public resources, torturing political opponents and murdering innocent people, adding that under the Shah Iran had the highest rate of execution in the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Iran Crisis Involves Alumnus, Students, Professors | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

Your Money by Richard Phalon. The reader who follows all of Phalon's advice may or may not "minimize his tax bite and manage himself into a surplus" as the author promises, but he will have had a good time for his $8.95. Explaining that loan rates can be negotiated, the Forbes magazine editor urges readers to take a firm stand with their bankers: "Insert the term 'banking relationship' into the conversation like a nicely greased thermometer and mention the imposing size of your checking and savings account balances. If that doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Reads to Riches | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...seminal fluid may somehow aid bacteria in penetrating the cervix and entering the uterus. But both Naeye and obstetricians are cautious about any wholesale proscriptions of sexual activity during pregnancy. They point out that the births studied took place between 1959 and 1966, when the fetal and infant death rate was much higher than now. Thus improved methods of caring for expectant mothers and newborn infants may have obviated some of the harm that could result from sex during pregnancy. Also, the analysis did not take into account the effect of intercourse before the last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pregnant Sex | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...Kleinfelder said she had instructed the team to shoot more from the floor, and shoot they did--from the top of the key, from the corners, from anywhere outside of 20 feet. The longdistance offense yielded fewer turnovers but also led to a 35-per-cent field goal conversion rate, not a winning statistic...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: UPenn Edges Women Hoopsters, 72-70 | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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