Word: exempt
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Twenty-three states have devised their own regulatory schemes, which exempt them from federal scrutiny, but the results have been mixed. North Carolina, where the Hamlet fire took place, has one of the worst systems. Under federal guidelines, the state should have 116 inspectors. Instead it has just 27 to oversee 163,053 employers. Last week the Charlotte Observer reported that in 1990 inspections declined 35% from the previous year and the state returned $453,000 in unspent federal money that could have been used to perform more inspections...
...wait. Weren't seminars supposed to be the aspect of a Harvard education that was exempt from hassle, free of competition? The different program? Isn't the hypocrisy apparent when seminars are hyped as the best of Harvard and then held arms-length away while 400 first-years salivate...
...long as he was the undefeated champ, implacably separating large fellows from their wits, Tyson was exempt from sweeping moral judgment. A killing machine knows no scruples. His brutality was his aura. He was as bad as we wanted him to be. But once he was unthroned by Buster Douglas in a humiliating upset early last year, Tyson was not only revealed as mortal but also held to mortals' rules...
Cupcakes are, but doughnuts aren't. Ritz crackers are, but saltines aren't. Granola bars are, but granola cereal isn't. Confused? So are shoppers in California, where the state government last week extended its sales tax to candy and "snack foods." But the exemption for food products remains, forcing beleaguered bureaucrats into an exercise in semantics: What is a "food," and what is a "snack"? The extra $200 million may help balance the books, but it has nearly unbalanced grocers as they try to price chocolate chips (a tax-exempt baking product) vs. chocolate kisses (candy, which is taxed...
...very positive step," he says. "The city now has some insurance that property won't be converted to tax-exempt property, but other fiscal issues weren't addressed in the agreement. Hopefully the framework which was set up can deal with the other problems...