Word: exempt
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...increased taxation would be necessary to get money into the cities, and called attention to Boston's particular need. Boston, Collins said, has only a property tax, unlike most other cities with several taxes. With the exception of Washington. D.C., Boston also has the highest proportion of tax exempt property in the country...
Guns v. Butter. Many Americans worried impatiently that the Administration was imperiling G.I. lives by allowing Hanoi to funnel arms and men into the South over bridges, roads and jungle trails exempt from air interdiction. On the other hand, the pause had fomented increasingly vociferous assaults on the President's policy in Viet Nam, largely from within his own party. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, challenged the very legality of U.S. involvement in the war. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield urged that the bombing be suspended "indefinitely." Nearly half of the Senate's Democrats...
...Bond, asked him if he concurred in the Snick statement. Replied Bond: "Fully." Later, Pacifist Bond added: "I admire the courage of anyone who burns his draft card"-even though he does not advocate draft-card burning and has not burned his own Selective Service classification I-Y card (exempt on physical, mental or moral grounds except in time of war or national emergency...
...already drafted substantial numbers of full-time students, while in other regions -- the Midwestern and Middle Atlantic states -- there is no indication that boards will take undergraduates. In affluent districts which send large numbers of their young men to college (and in farm districts where many registrants are draft-exempt agricultural employees) boards have been extremely hard-pressed to find eligible non-students. Some boards have inducted graduates and undergraduates who have taken a year's leave of absence, and others have not. Boards have applied different criteria in judging whether or not an individual has dependents, whether his particular...
...ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist...