Word: exempt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terms of Harvard, local lawmakers said this week that the new ordinance would affect University offices and libraries, but that dormitories and dining halls would be exempt from any additional bans...
...advisor and his staff. One idea is to prohibit their carrying out covert operations; another would be to require that the NSC advisor and possibly his top aides be made subject to Senate confirmation and make themselves available for congressional hearings, requirements from which they have been exempt as members of the White House staff...
Nonetheless, few Wall Street analysts expect the feared sell-off to materialize. One reason is that institutional investors control about one- third of all stock, and many of them, including most pension funds, are tax exempt and thus have no incentive to sell their holdings. Moreover, financial advisers are telling their individual clients to avoid indiscriminate dumping of shares. A stock should be sold, the experts caution, only if the investor thinks it has gone about as high as it will go. Otherwise the investor risks sacrificing hefty long-term profits in pursuit of modest tax savings. Says Barry Gordon...
Rehnquist voted alone for the right of segregated private schools to tax-exempt status, and in the 33 cases where he voted in favor of a race discrimination complainant, 31 were so clear the court was unanimous, the study said. In 14 civil rights cases where he cast the crucial vote, he went against the civil rights litigants, it contended...
...success of the advocacy tanks has spawned other tax-exempt offshoots. One new hybrid, which mixes the role of a think tank with that of a political- action committee, is connected to candidates with presidential aspirations. Then there are the "vanity tanks," whose existence centers on an individual, typically the founder. One example: the Ethics and Public Policy Center, founded by Ernest Lefever. Whether such organizations can survive after their original leader is gone is unclear. The Hudson Institute, Herman Kahn's future-oriented think tank, went through a precarious time financially after Kahn's death in 1983, and still...