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...standards, which require each company to meet a series of rising average mileage targets for all of its products: 18 for the 1978 models, 20 in 1980 and 27.5 in 1985. Engineering innovations, such as electronic ignition and fuel injection, are helping Detroit meet the mileage goals, but the simplest way to get more out of a gallon of fuel is to make the cars smaller and lighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Password for '78: 'Downsize' | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

...Ending "double taxation" of dividends. At present, a corporation pays tax on its profits, and then a stockholder pays tax on the portion of the remaining profit that he receives in dividends. The simplest way of ending this process would be to exempt from corporate taxes the portion of a company's profits that are paid out in dividends. However, the tax-reform team also is studying various proposals for integrating corporate and individual taxes. A stockholder, like a member of a partnership, would include in his taxable income his proportionate share of the company's profits. Several...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: Taking Aim at a 'Disgrace' | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

...enters Carter's study. Indeed it is his. It is small-17 ft. by 18½ ft. The vast sweep and power of the presidency are reduced to their simplest forms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Impressions of Power and Poetry | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

...around fifteen, the work uses an easy, loppy movement style. From a distance, I thought it was a baseball game and not the dance I had come to see. It is a lot like a game, and makes you laugh without being humorous. Interesting to watch is how the simplest actions, like running and forming lines, are the most exciting in open space, and how absurd gestures look even funnier when windswept...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Happy Feet | 5/25/1977 | See Source »

...that the screen romance ends happily; the film is, on the contrary, an attempt to dissect its failure. But within the context of loss, Allen exhibits an enviable ability to do and say the things the rest of us only dream of. On the simplest level, that means cutting through the polite dishonesty that garbs social interchange. When Annie admits she's not busy either Friday or Saturday night, Allen asks her, "How come you're so popular? What have you got--the plague?" And when they go out for the first time, he requests a kiss smack...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: A Nervous Romance | 5/19/1977 | See Source »

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