Word: exempt
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...recommendations. The fringe benefits of Staff Tuition Fellowships and Resident Tutorships in Harvard Houses are often enjoyed by teaching fellows and can serve to raise very considerably the pay per hour of time expanded. On the other hand, teaching fellow salaries are taxable whereas they could easily be made exempt by labeling the program one of financial aid, as the Committee assumes it to be. Further, it can make good business sense to become a teaching fellow at Harvard as the prestige attaching to the institution's reputation for competent teaching may enhance future...
Both Preston and Lipscomb indicated that there are already a large number of research assistants who receive tax exemption. The majority of these, they noted, have tax exempt stipends from either the National Science Foundation or the National Institutes of Health. Preston said, however, that some students not holding these grants had already avoided paying. "Until now, the IRS policy has not seemed very consistent," he said...
...judge supports this decision as well as the gentlemanly tradition that British Cabinet ministers-unlike civil servants-should be exempt from surveillance save in dire national emer gencies. Concludes Denning: "It would be intolerable to us to have anything in the nature of a Gestapo or Secret Police to snoop into all that we do, let alone into our morals...
...more willing to lend it on the increasing value of his education." Under USAF's plan, a student may borrow up to $4,000 from any bank in the organization's expanding network. While regular bank loans can cost up to 8% in true interest, nonprofit, tax-exempt USAF can secure loans repayable at as little as 5% and in no case more than 6% simple interest. And the student does not have to begin repaying the loan until five months after graduation...
...Depravity. The Gnostics of early Christianity, who claimed to possess a "secret wisdom" left them by Jesus, argued that they were exempt from provisions of moral law, and for so believing were expelled from the church. The British monk Pelagius, who died around 418, in effect contended that man could achieve salvation by his own actions apart from God's gift of grace; he was formidably countered by St. Augustine of Hippo, who emphasized the utter depravity of man and the absolute necessity of Christ's death at Calvary for redemption...