Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fascist." He explains: "I think a lot of it was puberty. It was so exciting." If so, intense study in jail helped bring on Mar shall's capitalist manhood. He and his wife Dianne, 32, own a pleasant houseboat and mooring space on Seattle's Portage Bay. "Liberal economics just doesn't work," he now says firmly. "It did for a time, but not any more. Self-reliance, productivity and independence are important. We used to assume that the wealth of some inevitably led to the poverty of others. But business interests me. Even profit doesn...
...California-style tax revolt. "People can't vote to decrease their grocery bills or the amount of money they pay for heat," Duehay said recently. "I'm afraid that coming on the heels of this tax increase, voters may be in a very receptive mood for tax-cutting." Should Bay State voters catch tax cut fever, the antidote would most likely be Proposition 2 1/2, a bill backed by the Associated Industries of Massachusetts and Citizens for Limited Taxation, which would roll back property tax levels to 2 1/2 per cent of assessed valuations. That wouldn't hurt some towns...
Proposition 2 1/2, largely the product of greedy Bay State businessmen able to manipulate public opinion, looms threateningly, but the future is as gloomy as a March weather forecast even without the new law. As inflation drains the city's buying power, cutbacks in federal and state aid empty Cambridge's coffers. There are two ways out--but neither make sense in the strange algebra of American politics. An overhaul of the state's tax system would help cities by lessening dependence on the regressive local property tax and by increasing state income taxes. But before state legislators boost taxes...
...wonderfully dilapidated one, designed by Derek McLane), from disturbing reality to comic illusion, occur smoothly under Maddy DeLone's crisp direction. DeLone makes full use of the intimate confines of the Winthrop House JCR, organizing the human traffic with all the aplomb of a Back Bay traffic cop. A Stoppard play needs technical gadgetry: for true comic effect, Enter a Free Man should have a "Rule Britannia" clock, a few portraits of the Queen, BBC radio droning in the background, and "indoor rain." The Winthrop production manages well without them, but the loss of these elements cannot help but detract...
...docket for April 3, 1980 listed nearly eleven cases. The eleventh case was that of Emeka Ezera '81, charged with "larceny from the person," arresting officer Pond of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA), and Heins as prosecuting attorney...