Word: exempt
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...childless men between 26 and 35, married as well as unmarried, who have not been called because of age. A third group being re-evaluated is made of 3-A "extreme hardship" cases, including Actor George Hamilton, 27, Lynda Bird Johnson's boy friend, who has been exempt on grounds of being the sole support of his four-times divorced mother. Hamilton and some others in this bracket have been ordered to report for physicals and possible reclassification. (Fathers, also classified 3-A, continue to be exempt...
...Civil Rights Act says that desegregation "shall not mean the assignment of students to public schools in order to overcome racial imbalance." The obvious intent of Congress was to exempt de facto school segregation in the North, while seeing to it that federal funds were cut off from Southern school systems segregated by law. The Southerners maintain that schools back home are no longer segregated -- they are merely "racially imbalance," and "racial imbalance" in the South is just as legal as "racial imbalance" anywhere else...
Nation's Business, the publication of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, pays no taxes and gets the jump on Business Week and FORTUNE, which do. The tax-exempt Journal of the American Medical Association, which rang up a record $10.5 million in advertising revenue last year, drains pharmaceutical advertising from tax-paying Medical Economics and Medical World News; by running ads for such products as soft drinks, margarine and soap, it also competes with general-circulation magazines. Thanks in large part to its tax-exempt status, the National Geographic is able to offer lower advertising rates than its competitors...
Critics are quick to point out that over the years the tax-exempt publications have won numerous influential friends. National Geographic, for example, has many VIPs on its board of trustees. "Generally," says former Commissioner Caplin, "such boards are window dressing." But, he adds, they serve to make Government investigators reviewing the tax status of such organizations "very cautious." Caplin, a lawyer who now represents the National Tax Equality Association, says that the investigators "are certainly not unaware of the line-up and the numbers of the players...
...recruit, some companies resort to blind mailings; Automatic Electric Co. recently sent letters to people living near its Chicago plant, asking, "Are you happy with your job?" By contrast, the Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. has more engineering job applicants than it needs-because public-utility power engineers are draft-exempt...