Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Massachusetts Department of Revenue officials give the go-ahead for 100 per cent assessment, the city will collect "estimated" tax bills from local property owners now and then send out corrected bills in the spring when the revaluation is complete...
While the white middle class has nearly abandoned the city's public schools, it has not abandoned the school committee. For years, the committee was either a stepping stone for higher office or a place to collect the benefits of an extensive patronage system. Often it was both. With the conviction of one member in an extortion scheme and the implication of two others--and the financial and morale crises brought about by mismanagement, courtordered busing and Proposition 2 1/2--this committee has not focused its attention on educating children...
Haig tried to put the best face on the deal. In closed session, he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he was "proud" to announce "new" assurances on protection of the planes and access to the data they collect. The Senators were not buying. Later, in an open session, when Haig argued that the sale was a test of U.S. friendship with Saudi Arabia, Republican Rudy Boschwitz of Minnesota waved a computer printout listing $38 billion in previous U.S. arms sales to the Saudis. Snapped Boschwitz: "What's the next test...
...Schools last year got $1.13 from Uncle Sam for each free lunch they served; 93? for each "reduced-price" lunch; and 29½? for each "full-price" lunch, for which students pay anywhere from 55? to $1.20. In all cases, the food actually costs more to prepare. Schools that collect the subsidy may, if they wish, also offer snacks, ice cream and à la carte items at truly "full" prices, but all pupils choosing the standard meal stand in the same line for the same food. Only school personnel are supposed to know, from an inconspicuous printed code, how much...
...children to serving the neediest. In some of the poorest districts, the cutbacks will have little effect. For example, about 84% of the 3,600 public school students in Lee County, S.C., are black, and 86% of them get free lunches. That will enable the county schools to collect a special 2?-per-meal subsidy paid to schools in which 60% or more of the meals served are free and reduced-price lunches. The county expects to receive the same $350,000 in cash subsidies that it did last year. Commodity subsidies will drop about $10,000 below...