Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cent of its fair market value. This practice, Corrigan said, doubles or triples taxes on homeowners, and falls particularly hard on those with fixed incomes. If passed the Classification Amendment would make it constitutional for cities to assess property at less than full market value, and would also allow them to use different rates for different classes of property, such as private household, industrial and commercial property...
Fair Share's tax coalition has already been successful in wrangling over $9 million out of the major airlines which use Boston's Logan Airport. In addition, the group was instrumental in changing Massachusetts law to allow the release and publication of the names of outstanding delinguent taxpayers. This action has led to the city's collection of millions of dollars in back taxes. Fair Share has also gone after individual delinquents with equal success...
Last year, over 80 professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences chose to take one- or two-semester leaves. Although leave-taking creates some minor administrative headaches for department officials and a few course selection disappointments for students, it does allow faculty members to recharge their intellectual curiosity, and it inevitably leads to another year's publication of major works...
...Being in Israel by itself was exhilarating," Griliches said, "but it was also good to get away from all the pressures of the rat race. Leaves allow you to break from commitments you've accumulated, over time, like barnacles...
...while Wilcox's studies go forward, a number of questions still remain about the structure of the course requirements. Last spring the Faculty agreed to authorize the Core committees to investigate several plans that would allow students more choice in how they fulfill the Core requirements. Facing the committees are plans to allow students a limited to by-pass Core courses with certain departmental courses, or to switch one half- course requirement from one field of study in the Core to another...