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...Reality has got to set in to the universities," Walsh said. "Everyone seems to be waltzing around these financial concerns. Maybe it takes a suit by the city against the universities in order to find out exactly what is tax-exempt...
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...
Tipping the grade scale, therefore, shouldn't be our first consideration. Undergraduates should be exempt from the academic theory feeding frenzy. While we are learning to write papers, we should make an attempt to say what we think first. Academic honesty should be our only priority. Let us not bow to jargon-jockeying this early in our lives...
...happens to be some of the most expensive real estate on earth. Last July, when the state fish and game commission announced that it would consider listing the gnatcatcher as an endangered species, developers bulldozed hundreds of acres of the birds' remaining habitat so that the land would be exempt from any future protection. In September the fish and game commission, bowing to construction-industry arguments that protecting the gnatcatcher would cost the state $20 billion and 200,000 jobs, decided not to list the bird. Environmentalists hope the Federal Government...
...seek penalties against employers through the state fair employment and housing department. The law currently applies to victims of bias on the grounds of race, gender, age or physical disability; AB101 would simply have added "sexual orientation" to the list. Businesses that employ fewer than five people would be exempt, as would religious organizations. But the legislation would have covered more than 80% of the state's employees...