Word: exempt
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Eventually, some of us began to questionwhether student deferments were morallydefensible, whether it was fair for Harvardstudents to be exempt from a war that was beingfought primarily by disadvantaged 18-year-oldsfrom small towns and the inner cities. The facultyof Arts and Sciences avoided a vote on that veryissue, but The Crimson eventually called publiclyfor the abolition of student deferments...
Last week Lujan again revealed his priorities. The so-called God Squad, a Cabinet-level committee of which he is chairman, announced its intention to exempt from the Endangered Species Act timber sales on various federal lands in Oregon -- despite warnings from biologists that the sales pose a threat to the northern spotted owl. It is only the second time in the act's 19-year history that an exemption has been granted. (The previous case involved the whooping crane and a Wyoming dam project...
...shipyards enjoy the protection of a 50% tax imposed on nonemergency repairs of U.S.-owned ships in foreign yards. Another boost to maritime interests is a law that prohibits foreign- built vessels from carrying goods from one American port to another. In Geneva, U.S. negotiators say they want to exempt shipping altogether from the new GATT regime. Extensive textile quotas, which the Uruguay Round proposes to bring under GATT for the first time, raise the bills of every American family almost $500 a year, according to a 1987 study. But the beneficiaries of such protection -- politically well organized textile manufacturers...
...Governor has engineered a series of tax breaks for business that have totaled $150 million since 1983 (on top of already low taxes on corporations). Most important are provisions that permit manufacturers to claim 7% of their new investments against their sales-tax liabilities and that also exempt some of their equipment purchases from the sales taxes outright. The Governor's aides claim that the concessions have helped spur $8.2 billion of investment in new or expanded plants and have worked mightily to promote a 19% increase in manufacturing jobs...
...other reforms, Clinton has requested and won two increases in the sales tax, which raises 40% of the state's revenue. A particularly objectionable feature: Arkansas is one of the few states to apply sales taxes to store-bought food (though not feed for chickens and pigs, which is exempt as an "industrial input...