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Cash heavy investors are reluctant to sink money into risky new ventures unless they can foresee lightly taxed profits. Frank Press, director of President Carter's Office of Science and Technology Policy, has found that more than 300 high-technology companies were started hi 1968, when capital-gains taxes were low. In 1976, the last year for which figures are available, there were none whatsoever...
Economics dictates strategy. Period. If the Navy doesn't understand this, they'll surely sink our economy through unwise overspending...
...hangs out over the track. Its speed is carefully monitored by an employee in the rabbit control box. The rabbit is not scented; its speed and sound attract the dogs to him. From time to time, says Scott, the greyhounds catch the rabbit; they must be sorely disappointed to sink their teeth into a mass of plush and polyethylene...
...looked at the building, I got a sudden urge to go inside. At least it would be dry. Walking in the front door, I found myself in a large, empty lobby. The carpet was the deep, thick kind that absorbs most noise, the kind that you sink into as you walk across it. On the far side of the lobby sat a short, squat old man wearing a freshly pressed three-piece suit and tightly gripping a cane. As I walked in, he looked up at me eagerly...
...looked more like an aquatic demolition derby than a race on the Charles Saturday, as the crews of 17 makeshift boats tried to sink the competition during the 1978 Adams House raft race...