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...charged in 1967, plus inflation and some allowance for certain expenses. Landlords charge that there are interminable delays in getting rent increases and that many expenses, such as loan interest, may not be passed on to the tenant. All owner-occupied buildings that have three units or fewer are exempt...
...Wright building's architecture. At the same time, the Guggenheim will unveil a fully funded $5.5 million exhibition and office space in New York's SoHo district, designed by Arata Isozaki. To help pay for the flagship expansion -- and additional storage facilities -- the Guggenheim floated $54.9 million in tax- exempt bonds in 1989. Other museums issue bonds to finance projects, but typically use their endowments as collateral. The Guggenheim has an endowment of only $30 million and its loans are secured with a letter of credit from the Swiss Bank Corp...
...place seems exempt from the slaughter. New homicide records have been set in cities as large as Dallas (501) and Washington (489) and as small as Anchorage (26) and San Antonio (211). More people are being killed by strangers. Murder is the leading cause of death for women in the workplace. The easy availability of firearms means that a single flash of anger can lead to another grim statistic, and sociologists fear that people thrown out of work in the recession will take their anger out on their former bosses and co- workers or families. The Federal Centers for Disease...
Both Harvard and MIT are exempt from paying Cambridge taxes because of their status as educational institutions, but they have negotiated in-lieu-of-tax agreements to compensate the city for the revenues it would earn if the properties were not tax-exempt...
...That is an easy criticism to make, and quite possibly an informative one. It is not, however, a legitimate dismissal of the proposal at hand. This argument ignores those supposed constraints not to induce its readers to investigate their substance. If there are institutional impediments, they should not be exempt from consideration, but should be weighed against the potential pragmatic and moral benefits of the approach they conflict with...