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...percentage of pre-registered students who actually donated increased almost 30 per cent from last fall's drive, Gabler said...
...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--outside Rte. 128, past Revere and Quincy, to Boston's silk-stocking suburbs, or down on the Cape--these tracts already enjoy a trim 2 1/2 per cent rate. For Cambridge, though, with property taxes currently at about 5 per cent...
Shah considers himself, first and foremost, a realist. He argues that advanced Western nations grant liberties which would threaten the stability of an impoverished Third World country like Nepal. With an annual income of $110 per capita and a literacy rate of 18 per cent, Nepal is undergoing development at an unprecedented, albeit glacial rate. The mountainous terrain--Nepal, home of Mounts Everest and Annapurna, is flanked entirely by the Himalayas--provides for poor communications, medical services and transportation of the agricultural goods produced by 90 per cent of the workforce. Shah denies that the mere infusion...
...King, a democracy because every citizen indirectly elects a local, regional and state-wide panchayat (council) representative. But in the constitution and in practice, the sole voice of authority is the King, the most revered of all national traditions, even more than the Hinduism professed by 90 per cent of the population...
...necessary to prevent papers expressing foreign views from eroding the stability of the monarchy. "Because alien resources are at their disposal," he says, "if you give them absolute freedom, are they going to have objective considerations without alien social and political bias dominating their news? Ninety-eight per cent of the people subscribe to the two symbols of Nepal: our monarchy and independent constitution. The remaining two per cent is an urban, educated middle-class elite. We don't want this two per cent to undermine our national symbols...