Word: shoestringing
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With the cost of money high, business conditions have begun to deteriorate, and hardest hit are the smaller firms. Unlike large corporations, which can pass on mounting overhead expenses by raising prices or turn to friendly banks for loans at a discount from the prime rate whenever they need a...
MOZART'S MAGIC FLUTE, that innocently expansive, made-up fairy tale cut with slices of Masonic mysticism, is probably the most durable of all great operas: you could mount it in a barn or a basilica with equal success. It's such a hodge-podge of childish humor, didactic verses...
lt's a disaster out there." "The plant I has depreciated enormously." "There are shortages just about every place you can think of." Comments like these from members of the intelligence community suggest that no other Government agency is in such urgent need of rehabilitation as the CIA. The...
Mastermind of the tax tactic is Mesa Chairman T. Boone Pickens Jr., 52, who majored in geology at Oklahoma State and started his own oil-producing firm in 1954 on a shoestring investment of $2,500. He has built Mesa into a company with 1979 revenues of $270 million and...
Don Erickson, Dial's editor, disagrees. "For years the Government has granted tax advantages to organizations that use their profits for socially useful purposes," says he. "And public television serves a useful purpose." Nonprofit publications are exempt from most taxes and save up to 50% on postal rates -a...