Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...showdown over the fiery issue approaches, some grim facts account for its support. Californians already endure one of the nation's highest state sales taxes: 6%. Because the stiff state income tax is withheld, it is relatively painless. But property taxes must be paid in a lump sum twice a year-and this hurts. Moreover, since 1971, property has been taxed at rates ranging from 3% to 3.5% of real market value, and that value has been soaring; many homes have tripled or quadrupled in value in the past five years. Homeowners' incomes have not nearly kept pace...
...Europe. Even if all the whites who worked at the vast Gé;camines mines that dominate Kolwezi could be lured back, it could still, after the last weeks' destruction, require up to a year to get the copper mines working again. In addition, the mines of Kolwezi account for about 90% of Zaïre's cobalt output-roughly half of the world's annual supply of that strategic metal-as well as sizeable quantities of zinc...
Gulag III should prove less formidable than its predecessors. The bleak panorama of I (the prison system) and II (the labor camps) opens on to more heartening vistas of resistance and rebellion in III. The book is principally an enthralling account of the first postwar escapes and strikes in the camps that exploded into full-scale mutinies after Stalin's death. That heroic era coincided with Solzhenitsyn's own eight-year term, and its heady air still exhilarates him. The pride and zest with which he describes the convicts' resistance contrast sharply with the fury he expended...
Production errors in last Friday's Crimson mangled the account of Harvard's 8-0 loss to St. John's in the NCAA Northeast Regional playoff tournament...
...consistently looked out for his personal interests, rather than the welfare of the impoverished majority of Zaire's peoples--reputed to be the wealthiest person in Africa, Mobutu owns the largest hotel in Dakar, Senegal, as well as a number of hotels and a large Swiss bank account...