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...Revenue Service from profits earned in other countries, where the rate is lower than 46%. Income taxes in some OPEC states not only are much higher than 46% but are sometimes based on the price of the oil. That gives the companies large credits that they can use to "shield" profits from, say, refineries in Caribbean tax havens where there are low or even no taxes at all. Complains Washington Attorney Jack Blum, for eleven years a staff member of the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee and the Foreign Relations Committee, and now a frequent critic of the Oil Game...
...your part is hardly as disturbing to me as Maurice Lazarus' contention that FDS is uninvolved with the boycott. His error is not just factual but runs to the heart of the corporate responsibility issue. Mr. Lazarus, Prof. Milton Brown (Allied Stores) and other retailers erect the same false shield ofhneutrality whenever pressed on the boycott "We're just pawns in the hands of consumers," the argument runs...
Even in the adjoining auxiliary building, separated by four feet of concrete and a stainless steel shield from the deadly gases, the radiation in some spots exceeded 1,000 rems, twice a lethal dose. Yet Edward Houser, a chemistry foreman at the plant, had put on his antiradiation gear, including three pairs of coveralls and a full-face respirator, in order to draw a vital sample of contaminated water to help his colleagues figure out what was happening. He absorbed only four rems during his mission; a total of five is the limit set by the plant for a year...
Flourocarbons are believed to harm the Earth's protective ozone shield. Deodorants, anti-perspirants, hair sprays, colognes, insecticides, spray paints, air fresheners, furniture polishes and household cleaners used flourocarbons widely...
...laws are changing. Since the mid-'70s Congress and half the states have adopted "rape shield laws" that protect rape victims from being unfairly grilled about their past sexual activity. Michigan's comprehensive 1974 rape reform law has been the model. At a preliminary hearing for the man who offered Alice a ride, the defendant's lawyer started asking her questions about her penchant for hitchhiking with men. Citing Michigan's shield law, the prosecutor successfully objected to that line of questioning. Unable to discredit Alice's testimony, the defense lawyer quickly made a deal...