Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regulations require total compliance if the costs of renovation work exceed 25% of the fair market value. The construction cost is taken as the cost listed on the application for the building permit...
...Relief from the provisions if the regulations can be sought formally if cost estimates exceed the $152,000 trigger level (25% of $608,000). (I don't want to guess our chances...
...homeowners were going to leave but canceled when the rush of tourists kept property values from plummeting. Everyone hopes to cash in this summer when an army of tourists - officials say it may exceed 3 million - marches in. Welby Spainhower of Ridgefield has a trailer-housed store with a view of the mountain and a stock that includes ballpoint pens filled with ash, 48 types of T shirts, and a record titled Ashfall. Clara Ottosen of Silverlake has converted a barn into a museum filled with Helenic artifacts, including the burned-out Volvo in which National Geographic Photographer Reid Blackburn...
...Democrat-controlled House, the trouble was both more predictable and more serious. The Democrats last week produced what amounts to a full counterbudget. Its politically appealing main elements: spending reductions that the Democrats say would slightly exceed Reagan's but give more money to social programs and less to defense; and a one-year tax cut some $14 billion smaller and much less sweeping than the President's. The promised results: a deficit in fiscal 1982 only about half the size of the one that Reagan's plan might produce; and a balanced budget by fiscal...
...such a strategy may make sense within the short term context of realpolitik, it promises to fail in the long term. Tolerance of repression is deplorable on humanitarian grounds, and it fails in practical terms. As the expectations of the populace rise, the costs of suppressing those demands may exceed the cost of meeting them. The United States, associated with repression by the newly enfranchised, will not be anyone's favorite country...