Word: exempt
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...John McCain, a former Vietnam POW, in the Vice President's campaign to persuade Congress to exclude the CIA from a measure that McCain easily got through the Senate prohibiting cruel and degrading treatment of any prisoner in U.S. custody. And Negroponte's muteness on Cheney's push to exempt the CIA seemed to signal a reply of "thanks, but no thanks" from the chief of the spies...
...Seidel says that achieving the proper balance in this relationship requires “a complicated dance” because of Harvard’s facilities and the constraints they place on the geographically small city. As a nonprofit tax-exempt institution, Harvard uses public resources—like roads and sewage channels—with no legal requirement to pay for them. The University makes a voluntary annual payment to the city in lieu of taxes, but politicians frequently call on Harvard to contribute more...
...more affordable among his other accomplishments in office.Sullivan also says that the city’s relations with Harvard have improved under his watch. In February, Harvard reached a new deal with the city under which it will increase the voluntary payments it makes to compensate for its tax-exempt status.Although Harvard will shell out about $2.4 million in 2006 under the new deal, Sullivan says he would work, if reelected to the council, toward convincing the state legislature to rescind Harvard’s tax exemption, calling it a matter of “fairness and equity...
...first newshound to sniff out Veep Dick Cheney's stealth efforts to exempt the CIA from Senator John McCain's bill banning inhumane treatment of U.S. detainees? BALKINIZATION'S Marty Lederman, a law professor who back in January started parsing Justice Department memos that seemed geared to "identify the legal limits, if any, that apply to interrogation techniques used by the CIA." When Cheney finally asked McCain last week to support such an exemption, other blogs were prompted to weigh in. "We are not fighting a normal enemy," posted THE HOUSTON CONSERVATIVE. "McCain needs to shut up and go home...
That money was directed through a charity originally created by a Gingrich supporter to help poor kids. Lion's share of the money raised by the tax-exempt Abraham Lincoln Opportunity Foundation bankrolled cable-TV shows and other parts of Gingrich's program...