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concern many .. gear manufacturers: ( the treatment of depreciation under the Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System; ( the corporate alternative minimum tax; ( the elimination of the Investment Tax Credit; ( the current tax treatment of capital gains; ( the treatment of "goodwill" under the .. tax code; and, ( changes in the present tax code concerning foreign tax credits (pp. 4-1 through 4-. .. gear producers claim .. product liability laws inhibit research and development efforts. .. producers' insurance costs have risen dramatically in recent years in the face of product-liability lawsuits. As result, according to industry sources, some firms cannot afford the high insurance premiums and have been forced to curtail or eliminate research and new-product-development efforts. Many .. firms feel that, in order to avoid product liability problems, they must produce only proven designs with extra measures incorporated xvii to ensure durability and longevity, and to stress design of products to more stringent standards. This hinders them from competing against foreign companies that can more readily offer new products and designs (pp. 4-1 through 4-1 and 8-. .. firms maintain that while businesses and manufacturers should be held liable for injuries caused by their products due to their own negligence, liability laws must be uniformly enforced and penalties reasonable. Under the current system, .. businesses assert that they can be forced to pay large settlements for injuries that they did not cause; it is not always necessary in the .. legal system to show that the target of such suit was responsible for injuries. .. firms maintain that this gives foreign firms competitive edge over their .. counterparts since other industrialized countries have fault-based standard of liability or other judicial or institutional differences that reduce the uncertainty of liability lawsuits. The fault-based system sets more rigorous s