Word: exempt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Evans who had somehow gotten my name on his mailing list had more to tell me. Putting my readings aside, I continued: "While taxpaying conservatives are hard at work earning a living, an army of left-wing agitators, radical legal services lawyers, AFL-CIO lobbyists, Common Cause publicists, tax-exempt Naderites, ACLU attorneys and countless others swarm through the Nation's Capital--pressuring, harassing, demanding...
Soaring Prices. The only practical solution is to deregulate partially, but how to do that remains debatable. President Nixon last spring urged Congress to exempt newly discovered finds of natural gas from FPC regulations. Such decontrol would greatly encourage gas-producing companies to find new deposits-and according to the U.S. Geological Survey, there are potentially some 1.2 quadrillion cu. ft. of reserves in the ground waiting to be tapped. The consumer would not suffer too much immediately, since the cost of new gas would be averaged in with the cost of existing supplies. But in the long run, deregulation...
...week determined by a rota system-half working Mondays through Wednesdays, the other half Thursdays through Saturdays. Industries that depend on a continuous supply of power, such as oil refineries and steel furnaces, will have to live with 65% of their normal ration. The food industry will be exempt from the restrictions, as will such essential services as railways, airports, doctors' offices and newspapers...
...estimated 6 per cent of the peasant's income in taxes. The French added stiff head and alcohol taxes and hiked this to 10 to 20 per cent. Widescale growing corruption among both French and Vietnamese officials in the colonial government added to the burden. The landlords were generally exempt from taxes...
...been claiming that their maximum efficient speed, below which they will use more gasoline per mile, is 60 to 65. Truckers say that their thriftiest speed is just under 60. Democratic Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana has been lobbying for an amendment to the Energy Emergency Bill that would exempt buses and trucks from the new limits. The Interstate Commerce Commission proposes to ease its "gateway" restrictions, which until now have often forced trucks to take circuitous routes instead of direct ones between some cities. Other truckers, though, will be hurt by the loosening of gateway rules, which are intended...