Word: exempt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposition would also exempt from rent control any home whose owners have lived in it for two years or more. He said the provision would help people who rent out their Cambridge homes for a few months of vacation then return to find they cannot legally evict their tenants...
...wrong in Congress as it is anywhere else." That statement from California Democrat Leon Panetta may seem obvious, but it has taken the House almost a quarter-century to accept it. In legislating the 1964 Civil Rights Act and all other laws imposing obligations on employers, Congress made itself exempt. Why? Some members lamely asserted that, well, Congress is "different." Others offered a legalistic excuse: having an executive agency regulate its employment practices would violate the separation of powers...
There have been signs in the glasnost-era press that the security empire is no longer exempt from criticism. Last year Soviet readers were shocked by reports that Ukrainian KGB officers had been dismissed for falsely arresting a muckraking Soviet journalist. That news seems almost tame compared with a recent scandal in Odessa. A senior KGB officer and a public prosecutor reportedly trumped up corruption charges that led to the false arrest of as many as 60 local officials. When the story broke in the press, the accused officials sued for libel -- and lost...
...Extend authority to issue tax-exempt bonds to benefit lower-income first-time homebuyers through June...
...Exempt farmers, loggers and other business people from paying the diesel tax on fuel used for off-road purposes. They now must pay and later file for a refund...