Word: exempt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cost of maintaining such increasingly extravagant monuments to Executive Branch ego (currently running at $14.6 million annually), Congress a fortnight ago passed a bill limiting the size of future presidential libraries. Ronald Reagan promised to sign the measure into law --but only after pressuring the bill's authors to exempt the presidential library he plans to build at Stanford University...
...about $2 billion a year to buy up surplus milk, Masstock International, an Irish dairy company, is receiving a federal tax break to construct a large dairy plant in Macon County, Georgia. Most of the funding for this project will come from $4.5 million in municipal bonds, which are exempt from federal taxes. The bonds were issued by Macon County officials, who hope to create new jobs in their area...
...Jewish groups that disagree with Catholicism on abortion are deeply concerned about the case's religious- liberty implications. The suit by a group called Abortion Rights Mobilization, joined by 20 other pro-choice groups and individuals, is aimed at stripping the Catholic Church of its status as a tax-exempt religious organization. The suit is based upon section 501(c)(3) of the tax code, which states that an exempt organization cannot "participate in, or intervene in . . . any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office...
...administration over the past two decades of our mutual acquaintance. While I was an undergraduate, the administration argued that undergraduate training for military duty deserved a separate department, but that Black or women's studies did not, and that research directly tied to military and counterinsurgency programs should be exempt from moral review. At least our administration has remained consistent--support of the status quo is neutral, and change is an intrusion into the academy...
...store's counsel said that because the old office was exempt from rent control, Ferranti-Dege hopes to transfer the rent control status of its 1306 Mass. Ave. apartment to its old one at its previous location...