Word: effect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what he wrought, Jarvis left pain as well as tax relief. California officials faced some brutal choices as they scrambled to figure out how to live with budgets now scheduled to shrink significantly with the beginning of the new fiscal year on July 1, when Proposition 13 takes effect (unless one of the five court challenges that have already been made proves successful...
Whatever the disappointments California taxpayers may meet when Proposition 13 goes into effect, their overwhelming support of the measure sends a powerful message to Washington, and there is some evidence that Washington is beginning to take heed. In what a Capitol Hill observer calls "one of the legislative surprises of the year," Wisconsin's Republican Congressman William Steiger has mustered astonishing support for a proposal to cut the capital-gains tax from a maximum rate of 49% to 25%. Though the Administration dismisses it as a "fat cat" proposal, Steiger's measure has won endorsement from 61 Senators...
...April vote against the levy, which would have increased the average homeowner's tax by $86.63. As a result, there may be no money to reopen Cleveland's schools after the summer recess. The vote also reflected opposition to court-ordered busing, scheduled to go into effect next fall to correct racial imbalances, and the high-handed manner in which Federal Judge Frank J. Battisti has, in effect, taken over management of the school system. Paul Briggs, Cleveland's respected veteran school superintendent, was so stripped of power by the court that he resigned his post...
...York Times, Columnist James Reston asserted that had the ruling been in effect a few years ago, it could have prevented publication of the Pentagon papers by the Times and the pursuit of Watergate by the Washington Post. In the case of the Pentagon papers, he says, federal investigators could have gone right into the New York hotel room where the Times staffers were preparing the classified documents for publication and seized them, presumably as evidence of a theft. As for Watergate, Reston contends that the ruling would probably have enabled agents of the Nixon Administration, conceivably pursuing evidence...
...crucial role of the local press in that process." On the other hand, there have been at least ten newsroom invasions by police since the Stanford incident. "If police come to view newsrooms as places where they can routinely get information, this decision will have more of a chilling effect than any previous case," says Floyd Abrams, a noted constitutional lawyer who helped win the Pentagon papers case for the Times in 1971. "Then it will be a different kind of country from the one the First Amendment was designed to preserve...