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...being hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for system beating, his Vague Gerneralities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
Harvard will tighten up the distribution of "Officer of the University" cards, President Bok said yesterday, following recent disclosures that the Kennedy School had offered a Texas couple Officer status in return for a gift...
...part, the U.S. announced last month that it will offer to eliminate all licensing requirements for the export of militarily sensitive technology to its Western allies, provided that those countries will tighten their controls governing the export of goods to the Soviet Union. The goal is to allow products to move more freely within the walls of COCOM, even as those walls grow higher and harder for outsiders to breach. That might help American firms reduce what is now a trade deficit in high-tech goods, without doing so at the expense of the country's security...
...business. "If the market hasn't recovered by the time I'm ready to go off into the sunset," he says, "this country is really in trouble. But I suspect that we could see a 10% to 20% drop in demand for our temporary labor as firms start to tighten...
...Tighten up interest deductions. America's most venerable tax shelter is the deduction on home-mortgage interest, a provision that was originally created to help families buy their first home. But perhaps that write-off is too generous. Earlier this month the House Ways and Means Committee adopted a $12.3 million tax-increase package that, among other measures, would finally put a cap on the deduction, limiting it to the first $1 million in mortgage debt. But why not lower the boom even further? As Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski pointed out, "With the people I represent, if you talk...