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...European and Japanese cars have had to be more economical because they haven't had our resources," Paisley replies smoothly. "They probably have a five-or ten-year jump on us in small-car development, but we're catching up." The old challenge and response trick...
...like Baird and the Spaeths, are literal vagabonds as well, carried by caprice along informal circuits of such cities as Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, New Orleans and Key West. A folk quartet called the Nee Ningy Band has also covered Africa and Western and Eastern Europe during its ten-year career. Consisting of fiddle, harmonica, bodhran (a flat goatskin drum) and penny whistle, the group takes its name from the sound the fiddle makes-nee ningy, nee ningy, nee ningy. Its members carry camping equipment, often stay in local homes. Says Violinist Rachel Maloney: "You learn to live with...
...Gray Panthers' senior citizens' lobby, the Administration has proposed the lifting of interest ceilings on savings deposits and has urged that all federally chartered savings banks offer interest-bearing checking accounts. Last week Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal endorsed Senate legislation to phase out ceilings over a ten-year period...
Before the accident, the planemaker was looking good. It had more than $750 million in cash and, after its slow start, its ten-year, $1 billion investment in the DC-10 was about to pay off. The company needs 400 sales of the $40 million plane to cover costs and start making profits. It has already delivered 281, received firm orders for 49, and taken options-which buyers could still cancel-for 50. Last year the Douglas commercial-plane side, which McDonnell had acquired in 1967, lost $60.3 million, mainly because of unrecovered DC-10 costs. This was more than...
...some attention to the subject of depreciation, Bill Miller has been promoting a slogan that sounds like a Super Bowl play: 1-5-10. His idea is to allow a full write-off in just one year for all equipment, such as pollution-control gear, that the Government requires companies to install, a five-year depreciation for other new equipment and a ten-year writeoff for new plants and commercial buildings. In a speech to the Advertising Council several weeks ago, Miller even pulled out two miniature footballs, emblazoned 1-5-10, and told his audience...