Word: exempt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Besides Depression-level prices and the absence of a sales tax-most states exempt these so-called "casual sales"-the supermarket-style modern rummage sales and their smaller neighborhood counterparts offer the old-fashioned fun of a country fair. Their proliferation has also revived the ancient art of haggling, long since fallen into disuse in the U.S. Picture the satisfaction of one Connecticut housewife, for example, who bid for a three-year-old G.E. refrigerator and got it for $50. At the same sale she picked up a Kenmore washer with a new motor...
...large-scale bombing of North Viet Nam is the appropriate answer to that country's enhanced aggression against South Viet Nam [April 17]. That an aggressor army, equipped lavishly with the most deadly implements of war, should be allowed to ravage its neighbors while its own homeland remains exempt is ridiculous...
...first things she did was to solicit sponsorship for the Festival from the Committee for the Better Use of Air, thereby ensuring the Festival a tax-exempt status and emphasizing its ecological sympathies. "Through the interaction of the community, artists and students, along with the celebration of spring," she says, "the many disparate elements of the Cambridge community can be brought together to heal the scars left by many unhappy and neglectful years...
...annual basis, but there is relief ahead. Presaging a downward trend in living costs, the wholesale price index in March rose a modest .1%, and food prices declined .4%. So far, most of the upward press has come from soaring food costs, especially meat, which is all but exempt from controls. Food costs are likely to dip somewhat in the near future, mostly because normal farm production cycles will ease shortages. But in the fall, the same cycle of supply and demand is also likely to send prices up again...
...proposal is part of a broader plan under which the City would request such payments from all tax-exempt property. Forty-five per cent of Cambridge property currently falls into tax-exempt categories...