Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worldwide economic and political conditions continue to churn, more and more corporate managers are turning to political risk analysts for advice. Large oil companies and banks have always had in-house analysts to weigh the stability of nations and regions. But a survey last year by the Conference Board, a New York business study group, found that smaller and less wealthy firms are now beginning to seek out specialists as well...
...ACSR's recommendation to the corporation will include "persuasive arguments" in favor of the motion, abstention was not in accordance with the weigh of the evidence...
Treasury Under Secretary Norman Ture in an interview with TIME described a complicated alternative that the Administration might weigh if-but only if-it cannot get threeyear, across-the-board cuts in income tax rates. It is a "two-stack" plan that would involve taxing "earned" (wage and salary) income and "unearned" income (dividends, interest, rents) separately, at the same rates, with a 50% top on both. At present, unearned income is taxed at a maximum 70%, vs. earned income's 50% limit. Ture figures that the two-stack plan would promote the Administration's goal of spurring...
...dining hall. Among the pant-suited ladies and pin-striped gentlement sit sweat-suited heavies and lights, discussing the day's trials, but never mentioning the outcome of seat racing. You fill your sit-up-tightened stomach fairly quickly, forgetting about the two pounds you have to lose before weigh-ins during the season, and head back talking quietly with friends to your empty house and room...
...style reflects the content and organization of a book eveidently intended to support a position, not weigh a question. Reading it is something like reading Erik von Daniken on the visits of spacemen to Earth during the Stone Age--enjoyable and enlightening if you already believe, irritating if you don't, amusing and not particularly illuminating to the neutral reader. It is impossible to deny the sense in much of what Strenio says; it is equally impossible, though, to miss the shallowness, oversimplification and inconsistency that often flaws his logic...