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...government. As inflation pushes people into higher tax brackets, federal, state and local bureaucracies collect larger revenues without having to put tax increases to a vote. Every 1% increase in inflation results in a 1.5% growth in personal income tax revenues. Consumers and politicians waging war on inflation might adopt a motto of the late great comic strip character Pogo: "We have met the enemy...
...member of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) withdrew his recommendation that Harvard adopt an official non-discrimination policy against gay students to allow time for a fact-finding group to prepare its report...
...series of speakers--most representing city employees unions--urged that the council adopt the package...
...charged that the City Council did not have the authority to adopt the regulation under either state law or the city's own rent control act, that the condominium limitations were inconsistent with certain provisions of the rent control act, and that the limitations represented an unconstitutional taking of property by the city...
...study, directed by Joseph S. Nye, professor of Public Policy and former Undersecretary of State, recommends the U.S. enact emergency allocation procedures, bolster its stockpiles of oil, and adopt cooperative strategies with its allies for emergency oil distribution...