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...such band-aid is the circuit-breaker for property tax relief--when the state runs a surplus it gives the money back to home-owners, scaled according to need. This is all well and good--we don't want the corporations to reap the windfalls as they did from Proposition 13. But circuit-breakers only divert time and attention from the real structural inequities in the tax system--the loopholes for the rich, the abatements for the corporations, the regressiveness of using tax incentives and credits to execute policy...
Sophomore record-breaker Anne Sullivan was talking about cross country captain Sarah Linsley and her freshman sister Kristin at Franklin Park yesterday afternoon, minutes after the harriers had neatly handled UMass and Brandeis in their season-opening tri-meet...
Dwight Evans singled in the fifth and moved to second on a Burleson sacrifice. Evans then came home on a Remy single. The same threesome teamed up in the seventh to bring Evans home again for a 3-0 lead before the Scott-sparked, eighth-inning breaker...
...figure several hundred digits long. The private, or decoding, key, on the other hand, is derived from the original prime numbers. To use a simple example: if the encoding key were 323, the decoding key would have to be 17, 19 (since 17 X 19 = 323). If a code breaker wanted to decipher the secret message, he would first have to factor the product-in other words, extract the original two prime numbers that are the source of the decoding key. But even in the computer age, factoring, which can involve trying out seemingly endless combinations of numbers...
...football team lost quarterback Tim Davenport with a broken neck in the league opener, charged into the league lead by upsetting Dartmouth, ther fell back with a loss to a mediocre crew from Princeton. Then came the back-breaker with Harvard still clinging to its hopes of tying for the league title in the fourth quarter of The Game at New Haven, when Yale punter Mike Sullivan buried the ball in his gut on fourth-and-20 and sprinted 65 yards for a game-icing touchdown...