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...billion to $200 billion figure. That is an estimate of how much the collections of the Social Security payroll tax may fall short in providing for benefit payments, and is based on rather gloomy assumptions about what might happen to inflation and unemployment. Under more optimistic economic suppositions, the seven-year deficit might be as low as $70 billion...
...musty rules of baseball, which require the commissioner to be liked by a full three-fourths of the owners in each league, Kuhn's popularity in the National League was deficient (seven for him, five against), and that was that. Although the American League liked him well enough, 11 to 3, his re-election for a third seven-year term was scotched. Said Kuhn: "I think as much as anything else there is some discomfort now with a commissioner who has disciplinary powers over the people who employ...
...House and the Senate. Under the provisions of the House bill, drug companies were to receive a 90% tax credit for expenses incurred in orphan-drug development, but the Senate struck this credit and substituted an appropriation of $9 million. The House measure also called for a seven-year period of exclusive marketing rights for unpatentable orphan products. It provided that in the absence of any alternative treatment, orphan drugs would be made available to patients by drug firms during a testing period. A new orphan-products board would be created within the Department of Health and Human Services...
...aggressor in its dealings with its Arab neighbors. The massacre involved more than 300 known deaths, and by the weekend it was believed the final total could reach the 700-to-800 range. The number was not large when viewed in the context of Lebanon's savage seven-year civil war, but the killings may well have marked a watershed in the history of Israel and the surrounding region. Most immediately, the massacre made negotiations for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Lebanon more difficult, and the Arab nations, which link Israel with...
...late June, Silverman announced that there was "insufficient credible evidence" to prosecute Donovan. But in a 1,025-page report, the special prosecutor disclosed that the elder Masselli, now serving a seven-year sentence for hijacking, had tried to peddle information about Donovan in an effort to cut his prison term and that Nat had permitted the FBI to bug his phones. Although these details were largely overlooked by the press, they were apparently noted with extreme interest by mobsters...