Word: andrews
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...property taxes for many homeowners jumped anywhere from 20% to 100% last year. Some of the most extreme increases are in California, where demand and speculation have inflated real estate prices, and state spending under Governors Ronald Reagan and Jerry Brown has increased an average 12% a year. Says Andrew Smith, 68, whose taxes on his West Los Angeles house have jumped in five years from $650 to $2,780: "Half of the income for Los Angeles County comes from property taxes, and 12% of that goes to policemen's and firemen's pensions. Why do I have...
Calling America "half a democracy," Andrew Martin, a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for European Studies, blamed the high rates of unemployment in America on the absence of any strong labor movement party...
...matters, but he also has more of an opportunity to make mistakes. West European and Japanese leaders are increasingly alarmed by Carter's habit of moralizing without a proper appreciation of power realities, a tendency they feel is all the more exaggerated in one of his assistant policymakers, Andrew Young. They fear, above all, that Carter may be weakening the U.S. capacity to stand up to the still adventurous and aggressive Soviet Union. He has taken a series of actions they find dismaying: ordering a U.S. troop withdrawal (which he reduced somewhat last week) from South Korea, canceling...
Vance has the highest regard for what he considers United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young's "excellent instincts" on Africa. But when the loquacious former Georgia Congressman accused various foreign white leaders of racism, Vance summoned Young to his office and scolded him for not tempering his language...
...Harvard Russian Research Center successfully ended a $2.6 million, two-year fund drive for their advanced research and training programs in Russian Studies with a $600,000 grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation...