Word: surpluses
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...more insistently. Opinion polls suggest that a majority of the public believes that corporations earn much more than they actually do, and favor higher taxes on profits. Hence, it would behoove Americans, too, to rid their minds of what Samuelson characterizes as the suspicion that profits are "an exploitative surplus which fat men with an unfair penchant for arithmetic skim from the gross national product...
...body of a trailer truck half-buried in the pit, and the guard remembered the previous incident and tipped the police about Woods. Police now believe that Woods not only bought the van in which the children and driver were held but that he also purchased the two Navy surplus panel trucks used to carry them to the site...
Critics often point out that during Reagan's eight years as Governor of California, state spending more than doubled, to $10.2 billion. Reagan replies, correctly, that he nonetheless turned a looming deficit into a sizable budget surplus (he went along with huge tax increases in order to do so). On the national scene, he claims credit for having pushed Ford into some positions more conservative than the President wanted to take. For better or worse, Reagan has struck a responsive chord in Republican thinking that may not win him the nomination, but that will still be a force...
...against Big Labor in a duel to the death! The executive committee of the bourgeoisie casts off the hypocritical veil of congressional government and campaigns in its own name, while the section of the labor movement which has reached only trade union consciousness presses for its share of the surplus! The boff 'em, sock 'em bout of the century...
Though many of the recent impediments to vigorous industrial expansion -heavy corporate debt, tight money markets, huge surplus capacity-are now fading, the extent of increases in business spending this year is still uncertain. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, believes that business spending has lagged -largely because of the general uncertainty in recent years. Greenspan expects capital expenditures this year to increase about 5% in constant dollars over last year and says that "the 1977 capital investment outlook is exceptionally good." According to the Commerce Department's latest survey of business spending intentions, plant...