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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California do not rely solely on the property tax for income. They have been spending some $33.9 billion a year and real estate taxes account for just $12.4 billion of that. Proposition 13, which rolls back property taxes to 1% of market value (they average about 3.2% now), will reduce revenues from this tax by $7 billion. But that represents only 20.7% of all local funds. However, sizable federal grants may be lost because no local matching money will be available...
...happy marriages." Chess Genius and sometime Disciple Bobby Fischer was quoted as saying that Herbert "is simply a madman who would love to rule the world. He continuously tries to frighten and panic you about the supposed imminent end of the world-so that you will empty your bank account before...
After reading the account of the William Waddill case [May 22], I fail to understand why he, alone, is on trial. Are countless other physicians who perform abortions less guilty than Dr. Waddill...
...sends welfare money to the needy. The department's health services send a steady stream of payments to recipients of Medicare and Medicaid. HEW conducts more than half the nation's biomedical research into cancer and other killer diseases. The Food and Drug Administration's regulations control products that account for about 25 cents of every dollar spent by consumers. HEW'S education division distributes aid to schools and colleges and helps fund Sesame Street, the TV program that delights and instructs the nation's small fry. There are other programs for ethnic studies and for mastering the metric system...
...which he and his sister kept $100 per month for themselves ("Why take more?" Han asks. "Our apartment costs only $85 a month"), he had made a $10,000 profit. Next week he will rebate all of it to his 2,000 regular customers, of whose spending he kept account, at a rate of 30%. One customer, who spent $1,000 at WE, will thus receive $300 in cash; the city of Pontiac, which had him cater two parties, will...