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...Treasury Department's original plan, produced largely by former Secretary Donald Regan, stirred such a flurry of objections that the President ordered up a revised version designed to retain many popular tax breaks. The work was overseen by the new Secretary, James Baker. Ironically, the changes were funneled to the President through his new chief of staff, Regan, who had switched jobs with Baker...
...earlier version proposed treating capital gains as ordinary income and thus taxable at up to 35%. Treasury II would retain roughly the current rate for these gains, a maximum of 20% for individuals, and may even phase in more generous treatment later. Business leaders have been fiercely fighting to protect accelerated depreciation, which permits companies to take write-offs for new investments more quickly than those assets depreciate. The new plan will retain some form of speeded depreciation. In addition, the oil and gas lobbies are likely to win the retention of such tax breaks as oil-depletion allowances...
Procter & Gamble explains that the stars in the symbol signified the original 13 colonies and that the quarter moon with a human face was simply a popular image of the time. While the company wanted to retain the symbol for posterity, market research showed that most consumers never even notice it. Said Spokesman W.F. Dobson: "There is very little benefit to having it on the packages." Procter & Gamble, which makes a host of products ranging from Jif peanut butter to Crest toothpaste, will retain the symbol on corporate stationery and buildings...
...Coke seems to retain the essential character of the original version in that it, too, imparts faint cocoa-cinnamon overtones and has a balanced, smooth body with no sharpness or overpowering flavor. However, it is sweeter than the original formula and also has a body that could best be described as lighter. It tastes a little like classic Coca-Cola that has been diluted by melting...
...thesis make this a book with real appeal only to die-hard Red Sox fans interested in Globe-style articles they have probably pored over in the years past. Why Gammons wrote the book is somewhat of a mystery. Three old columns should have been allowed to retain their dignity rather than finding themselves placed into a game for which they were too tired to perform...