Word: exempt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Premier David Ben-Gurion set out to draft women into the Israel army four years ago, extremist leaders forced him to exempt Orthodox girls. Soon 30% of all girls called up blithely claimed to be Orthodox. Last year Ben-Gurion wrote a new bill which would draft Orthodox girls for work on farms, in hospitals and in immigrant camps, instead of the army. The new bill would not force ultra-Orthodox girls to wear the "unmaidenly" Israeli women's army uniforms, and would let them return to their own homes at night. Moreover, they would not be controlled...
...hope of turning out 200 a month to sell at 150,000 pesetas ($3,750). The only sizable automaker in Spain, Fiat will have the Spanish car market virtually sewed up, since no other automaker can afford Spain's 40% excise taxes, from which Seat will eventually be exempt. Fiat also landed a $22.5 million U.S. Air Force contract to assemble F-86 Sabre jets under 10-year license from North American Aviation Inc., the first such order placed on the Continent...
...George Humphrey has already asked the House Ways & Means Committee to correct the "many conspicuous abuses [of the tax law] by highly paid individuals." And two bills to repeal the "Hollywood clause" have been introduced. But protests have already been heard from engineering firms and mining companies. Probable solution: exempt the first $20,000 earned overseas, tax the rest at regular rates...
Lineage. In Chicago, charged with draft-dodging, James Pharr, 25, failed to make his point and drew a five-year sentence after telling the court that he was exempt from service because he was related to the Neanderthal man, was therefore an alien "Asiatic...
...Corporation decided on January 12, 1953, officially to exempt the Arboretum form this plan. The decision was necessitated by much legal controversy as to whether moving parts of the Arnold Arboretum's library and herbarium from, Jamaica Plain to the proposed building was a "violation of trust funds...