Word: collected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result, Chicagoans next year face a staggering 17.5% increase in real estate taxes. Buffalo and Syracuse recently declared the largest property tax hikes in their histories, and Newark got permission to collect a 1% levy on payrolls. San Francisco will begin taxing payrolls .5% if its law clears the courts. These cities are relatively fortunate; other cities are virtually desperate. Under state laws, both Omaha and Detroit are already taxing to the limit of their authority and could not pass tax increases even if they wanted to. Sooner or later, says former Pittsburgh City Councilman J. Craig Kuhn, "all cities...
...huge inflow of dollars, the U.S. directed much of its aid toward financing massive imports of luxury goods-thus increasing supply to match demand. The bank points out that Vietnamese businessmen make "quick and exorbitant profits" by securing import permits and selling foreign goods at outrageous markups. Bureaucrats collect bribes for dispensing the permits, and the Saigon government gets most of its income from import taxes. The report also contends that large shipments of American rice have reduced Saigon's incentive to fight Viet Cong influence in the rice-rich Mekong Delta...
...members of the Air Line Pilots Association earn an average of $33,250 a year-it goes up to $59,000 for some captains on transatlantic runs-for working 60 to 85 hours a month. No less generous with themselves, ALPA captains collect flight pay of around $40 per hour for time that they spend on association business; last year union officers managed to spend $1,100,000 on "meals, travel and lodging." Their power matches their pay. The union can put out of business any airline that it chooses to strike...
That was the hour when a General Motors tool repairman named Francis Cronk accepted a collect call from the Traverse City state hospital for mental patients. His mentally retarded son, John David Cronk, 26, had died. The hospital autopsy claimed ''acute pulmonary congestion." Dismayed, the Cronks ordered another autopsy by a private pathologist, Dr. Charles E. Black. His report was startling: death had resulted from severe chest and abdominal injuries, including contusions of the lungs, stomach and diaphragm, apparently caused by beatings. Three weeks later, Weekender published its own account of Cronk's death as well...
...barely a furlong left to go. Suddenly Poincelet eased up, and so did the horse. Scallywag finished out of the money. Track stewards suspended Poincelet for his disappointing efforts, but Luca had his own disciplinary ideas. He sued the jockey for $20,000, the amount he stood to collect had Scallywag placed at least third...