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Dunster House Music Society presents pianist Daniel Ullman in a recital of Chopin's Preludes, Op. 28. Dunster House Library. 5:30 p.m. Free...
...three. It is a different show every night it plays. The rotating cast members are all thirty-ish people-next-door types--versatile, and stocked with every improvisational trick in the book. One night last week, the actress near the top of the pile played, among other things, Liv Ullman, a second-grade teacher, a cabinet member, a sex fiend, and Pittsburgh, all in two hours. The next night, I hear, she played Monty Hall, Karen Quinlan, and Elizabeth, New Jersey simultaneously. Wouldn't bet against...
...Brookings Institution's Joseph Pechman, who is a member of TIME's Board of Economists, was "very, very unhappy" with the Ullman plan. He warned that it is likely to dangerously distort the job market. His point: "It encourages employers to substitute part-time workers for full-time workers and low-income workers for moderate-income workers." For example, in order to double the tax credit available to it under the plan, a company may decide to hire two marginally qualified workers at $5,000 apiece rather than one more skilled person...
...Even the experts on the Ways and Means staff admitted that the proposal could lead to "job churning"-the conversion of full-time jobs to part-time jobs in order to collect more tax write-offs. Ullman conceded that a firm might be able to hire a worker at $4,200 for six months, replace him with a new worker at the same wage and pick up $1,680 credit for each...
Despite its flaws, the Ullman revisions are virtually certain to be passed by the House when it votes on Carter's full package this week. The Administration's best hope is to rally support for the President's original proposals in the Senate, where Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, the chairman of the Finance Committee, is regarded to be more favorably disposed than Ullman toward Carter's business provisions. Then the White House hopes that a House-Senate conference committee will toss out Ullman's plan and restore Carter's original concept...