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...much more they will be paying until the fall, because property taxes are also based on property valuations and possible changes to zoning classifications. In the current fiscal year, when the budget required a 5 percent increase in property tax revenue, most residents’ property taxes remained constant or increased by less than $100. This year Cambridge citizens and business owners paid $7.36 in city property taxes for every $1,000 worth of residential property they owned, and $17.24 for every $1,000 worth of commercial property. Healy said that the city was trying to offset some...
...story shot into the media stratosphere last September, when the Portuguese police named the McCanns "arguidos," or suspects, making the couple the focus of the continuing Portuguese investigation - which at that point was clearly foundering. What followed was a constant flow of often outlandish and anonymous leaks that seem designed to bolster the case against the parents. One claimed the girl was buried at sea; another said the McCanns had participated in wife-swapping orgies. The leaks typically first appeared in Portuguese news outlets before being repeated by the British media. The McCanns countered by successfully suing the Express Newspaper...
...cosmetic surgery among Asians has increased in order to create the trait. Along with weight-related pressures generated by television, magazine, films, and other media outlets, Shauna L. Shames, a graduate student in government, described these stresses in body image to be part of a “constant cycle that makes sure you have to be unhappy about how you look, no matter how you look to begin with.” “You have to not feel good about yourself in order to be a good consumer,” Shames said. Becker, an anthropologist, found...
Resisting that temptation is a constant struggle. Edward's choice--and the willingness to choose a different way in general--is a major theme in Meyer's books. "I really think that's the underlying metaphor of my vampires," she says. "It doesn't matter where you're stuck in life or what you think you have to do; you can always choose something else. There's always a different path...
...realize the sort of thing applied for beer as well.” Koch kept the tone of the event light, not acknowledging his company’s April recall of bottles of Samuel Adams beer potentially containing shards of glass. While Koch’s constant smile and affinity for beer gave him an aura of relaxation, the brewer took pride in his trade, speaking to the success of Sam Adams and American brewing. “Among brewers, they recognize that the best beers today are made in the U.S.,” Koch said...