Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attracted to publishing. He has written a book on management and a textbook on semiconductors. His articles have also appeared in FORTUNE, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Last summer at a party during the Democratic Convention, Grove revealed to Mercury News editors his yen to write a regular column. He reports that the editors picked up the offer before they could down another drink. Perhaps price was a reason for the haste. Grove is paid $50 a week...
...likely impact and merits of the tax-reform plan. Aside from real estate, the plan would weigh most heavily on "smokestack" industries such as steel and autos with heavy investments in plant and equipment that could no longer qualify for the investment tax credit or speeded-up depreciation write-offs. These are the very industries threatened most by foreign competition. The plan, said a Ford Motor Co. statement, "will have an adverse effect on capital formation in the creation of new jobs in the industrial sector . . . Overall, the tax plan will appear to be detrimental to the nation's trade...
...theory that income owed in taxes to state and local authorities should not be taxed again, Washington has traditionally allowed taxpayers to deduct those funds from their federal total. For those who itemize their deductions, especially if they live in a state with high taxes, the largest single write- off on their federal return is often the combined total of state and local taxes on income, real estate and retail sales. Residents of New York State who took the deduction in 1982, for example, saved an average of nearly $1,300 on their federal tax bill. Not coincidentally, the Empire...
...mutual problem took Red Cross representatives from North Korea over the border to talk with their counterparts in the long-hated South last week. It was the plight of some 10 million people who have been separated from their families, unable even to write letters to one another, since Korea was partitioned at the time of its liberation from the Japanese in 1945. The meeting got off to a rocky start when North Korean delegates refused to allow their South Korean hosts to show them the new sports complex in Seoul, where the 1988 Summer Olympic Games...
...Griffin (male) and Blair (female); whoever asks first gets him. When one of his sisters gives him an expensive leatherbound datebook, he knows at once he will not use it: "I tried to keep a datebook one summer, but it didn't work out. I'd get confused and write down things just to write them down and I came to this realization that I didn't do enough things to keep a datebook." Still, he shambles with a fast crowd; one girl keeps track of her mother's whereabouts by reading Variety. Clay and his pals party nearly every...