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...prior years of giving a bonus, this year's payout would probably be permitted. Companies that seek to raise their bonuses are expected to adhere to the board's 5.5% limit on overall pay increases. Thus, whatever a company adds to its bonuses, it will have to subtract from its increases in wages and benefits in order to stay within the 5.5% limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Crunch That Stole Christmas | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

...absolutist interpretation of the First Amendment as protecting all speech, yet he found that the amendment's wording could not be extended to protect such actions as flag or draft-card burning. Last year Black wrote: "I believe the court has no power to add to or subtract from the procedures set forth by the Founders. I shall not at any time surrender my belief that that document itself should be our guide, not our own concept of what is fair, decent and right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: The Senior Justice Retires | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

Basically, the tax credit would enable businessmen-as well as doctors, dentists, freelance writers, and all other self-employed persons who buy new equipment-to subtract 10% of their expenditures from their tax bill the first year. Because of the way deductions are calculated in the corporate tax structure, this would be about the same as getting 20% knocked off the price of the equipment. From the second year on, the credit would drop to 5%. Treasury officials estimate that the credit would slice $3 billion from corporate taxes during the first fiscal year, $4 billion the second, and somewhat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: The Great Tax Debate | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

Elliott Gilbert '74 of Thayer Hall said that when his roommate had called the phone company about a long distance call, he was informed that the company would subtract $6.50 from their seven-dollar installation fee which they were charged last fall...

Author: By Patti B. Saris, | Title: Telephone Co. Overcharges Students For Installation of Centrex Phones | 1/20/1971 | See Source »

...Connally as an economics expert struck some professionals as odd; the man is simply not known in New York financial circles. Bradbury K. Thurlow, an investment analyst with Wall Street's Hoppin, Watson & Co., said of Connally: "I never knew that he knew how to add and subtract." Several of Connally's predecessors however agreed privately that financial expertise is not a primary prerequisite, so long as Connally retains the Treasury's skillful top technicians or picks other equally competent experts to guide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: President Nixon Takes a Democrat | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

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