Word: schemings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Skid Row Plot A scheme to kill Carter...
...John Cassavetes' tedious The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. Like all saints, though, Jack must be tempted by a truly immoral proposition: in the film's final stretch, a mysterious confidence man offers him $25,000 to blackmail a visiting U.S. Senator. This sleazy scheme brings Saint Jack to fitful life, but our hero shuts the door on temptation, all too predictably...
...coming around to a grudging acceptance of the idea, just as long as the levy would contain a so-called plowback provision that would permit them to reduce windfall taxes by investing the money in exploration. Congress could well go along with a plowback. Though Carter has attacked the scheme as a loophole "that you can sail an oil tanker through," he may find that without a plowback he will have real trouble getting...
...Monopoly Subcommittee and the Foreign Relations Committee, and now a frequent critic of the Oil Game's international accounting and tax methods: "We have reached the point with the oil companies where the foreign tax credit is being abused on a scale that no one had imagined. The whole scheme is now simply subsidizing foreign imports...
Refineries pay about $15.80 per bbl. or 38? per gal. for the Saudi crude. But they actually get a big refund from the complex U.S. Government entitlements scheme. This reduces the refineries' real cost...