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...congressman (New Jersey), New York, July 14 1976 Second row: Joseph Califano, attorney, Washington, DC, June 8 1976; John deButts, chairman, AT&T, New York, May 5 1976; César Chávez, organiser, United Farm...
...Put in place under President Ronald Reagan in 1986, it sets a minimum of 20 per cent for a company’s tax rate, with only limited potential to use credits to reduce that....
...Mr Lavin’s connection with McDonald’s runs so deep that he is a trustee for its flagship Ronald McDonald House charity, which helps house the families of hospitalised children....
...These “food augmentation resource modules” would have the snappy acronym “Farms”....
...The Freedom to Farm reform in 1995 phased out farm subsidies in return for greater freedom for farmers. Spending more money is what politicians do when they cannot be bothered to govern....
...Five years later, President Jimmy Carter deregulated interstate trucking with the Motor Carrier Act of 1980, setting the stage for the sweeping deregulation of business under President Ronald Reagan....
...He taught himself to read and write and was little more than a farm labourer and occasional storekeeper, postman and surveyor before he fell in love with the law and politics....
...Famed – as Presidents Jimmy Carter, struggling to warn of excess and Ronald Reagan, happy to licence it – and obscure, as John Wesley Powell, a civil war major-turned-geologist who warned of drought, to...
...To ensure Micron got off the ground, he reputedly lobbied his friend, President Ronald Reagan, to impose tariffs on foreign microchips. Simplot’s political clout may have come in handy....
...Barnyard banter It makes sense that Chuck Grassley, a Republican senator from the farm-rich state of Iowa, should occasionally lard his speeches with agricultural metaphors....
...A few Chinese farms are already popping up in Italy. How long before the Chinese lose their well-known dislike for cheese and take over parmesan production?...
...But not until Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980 did conservatives feel they had sent one of their own to the White House....
...Do you want to repeal social security, rural electrification programmes that brought electricity to the farms of America?...
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