Word: aprils
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OHIO. Twice in the space of 60 days Cleveland voters rejected a hike in property taxes that would have rescued its 113,000-student public school system from bankruptcy. The margin last Tuesday was 3 to 1, an increase over the 2 to 1 April vote against the levy, which would have increased the average homeowner's tax by $86.63. As a result, there may be no money to reopen Cleveland's schools after the summer recess. The vote also reflected opposition to court-ordered busing, scheduled to go into effect next fall to correct racial imbalances, and the high...
Besides boundary lines, the dispute involves conservation. The U.S. last year gave Canadians temporarily increased access to U.S. West Coast salmon grounds, on condition that Canada close its Swiftsure Bank fishing area off British Columbia, where much of the U.S. salmon catch matures, from April 15 until June 14. Canada dawdled in honoring the proviso until May 15. On the East Coast, Canada demanded that the U.S. cut back its catch of scallops, cod, pollock and haddock on the Georges Bank to match quotas imposed by Ottawa on its own fishermen. State Department negotiators declared that Washington did not have...
...most visible trouble is being caused by beef prices. Climbing steadily for months, they leaped during April by 6.6%, recalling the spiral that led to a housewives' boycott of meat products five years ago. Beef is rising because cattlemen are not sending their animals to slaughter. During 1975, 1976 and 1977, slumping meat prices encouraged ranchers to cut the size of their herds, lest they become stuck with steers that could only be sold at a loss come market time. By this year, the nation's cattle stock had dropped to a seven-year low of 116 million head...
Heavy rains in California savaged the vegetable crop and were largely responsible for April's heady 30% rise in the price of lettuce. Fresh fruits are also expected to climb by 15% to 16% during the year. Pork production was expected to grow by 13% this year, but cold weather made the animals more susceptible to disease, and growth projections have now been scaled back to from...
...full ordinary-income rates ?which would effectively double the tax in many cases?but eventually sent Congress a recommendation for a much smaller rise. That still worried Representative William Steiger, 40, a baby-faced Wisconsin Republican who has the gung-ho style of a JayCee president. Therefore, on April 13 he introduced a counterproposal: an amendment to lower capital-gains taxes, indeed to cut them almost in half on the biggest profits. Steiger intended only a blocking maneuver, but he has found himself leading a marching band...