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...package will amount to at least $20 billion a year, and a third of that will go for business tax relief. The 48% corporate tax rate will be reduced-perhaps to 46%. The White House is also considering making the 10% investment tax credit permanent; it is due to revert to 7% beginning...
...Mecca the pilgrims end their state of "ihram" by a symbolic shortening of the hair. They resume their commitment to the present and the particular once more. They revert to their own dress. Many travel to Medina, the second most revered city in Islam, where Mohammed established the first Islamic state and where he is buried in a corner of the "Nabawi" Mosque...
...Daily News is a best-seller newspaper, and its writers, it seems, may be forced by time and iron gloves to revert to cheap tactics to maintain the largest circulation in the country. But when Hamill sits down to write a novel, we might hope that he could revise his relationship with the typewriter. Flesh and Blood, Hamill's latest novel, however, exposes Hamill either in a spell of extreme laziness or an inability, after so many years of banging out copy under deadline, to write thoughtful prose...
...sons of alumni. For all the progress in desegregation, blacks still must surmount a crushing residue of two centuries of discrimination in acquiring the tools and attitudes required to compete in U.S. society. Without affirmative action, four California law deans jointly wrote last winter, enrollment in their schools would revert to nearly all-white classes...
...order that the reservoir be drained after an environmental impact study is concluded. But the town's farmers are determined to fight such an order in the courts. Says Don Bones, president of the Citizens' Committee to Save the Littlerock Dam, Inc.: "Without water, Littlerock would revert to the desert it was 100 years ago. It would wither and die." It appears that Littlerock will be damned if the courts do approve drainage and dammed if they...