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Making matters worse for Harvard, some administration tax analysts are considering proposals to increase certain taxes on the wealthy--such as user fees for yachts and private aircraft--to help offset a federal deficit which they now say could climb as high as $60 billion. Since the added levies would in no way encourage charitable giving, "they can only be viewed in a negative light," says Coddington, adding, "It is true, we are getting hit both by reductions and increases." On the other hand, tax incentives designed to encourage corporate investment in university research remain "insignificant," the lobbyist notes...
...wide. The disc, which can be simply loaded in the camera like a film cartridge, has enough space on it for about 50 snapshots. The camera can shoot single frames or, when set for continuous action, record up to ten frames per second. After a picture is taken, the user places the disc in a small device that attaches to any television set and views the picture on the TV screen...
...seemed to be winning. From the outset of the meeting in a penthouse suite on the hotel's 19th floor, Office of Management and Budget Director David Stockman insisted that Reagan could not possibly balance the fiscal 1984 budget without new revenues far beyond the excise taxes and user fees that the Administration may propose; politically inflammatory and perhaps unachievable slashes in social spending; or smaller cuts in social spending coupled with significant cuts in defense spending. Endorsing Stockman were the remaining two-thirds of the economic troika, Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan and Chairman of the Council...
Renters sometimes put their units to inventive uses. A New Mexico manager discovered a user who regularly drove his girlfriend and his Cadillac into his roomy cubicle. The manager had to inform him that love in the warehouse was not allowed. In Altamonte Springs, Fla., police arrested a tenant who was using a mini-warehouse cubicle to grow 364 potted marijuana plants under fluorescent lighting. Perhaps the sneakiest case of all was a Los Angeles woman who made daily trips to her cubicle with new pieces of furniture. When asked by the manager what her purpose was, she explained that...
...question is why has language, given its unique power to convey thought or feeling or almost anything else in the human realm, fallen so short as a practical social tool for man. The answer is that it has not. Instead, the human creature has fallen short as a user of language, employing it so duplicitously that even in ancient times the wise advised that people should be judged not by what they said but by what they did. That such advice holds good for today goes, alas, without saying. -By Frank Trippett