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...studio, Madison braced himself for the gauntlet of demonstrators and special pleaders. He strode quickly past the suffragists with their banner: THE RITES OF MAN ARE WRONGS FOR WOMEN. He shook off two business lobbyists, easily identifiable by their soft Venetian boots, who wanted the Constitution specifically to exempt the game of rounders from the interstate commerce clause. Shy, soft-spoken and constantly embarrassed by his own meager war record, Madison found a delegation of Revolutionary War veterans harder to ignore. Confronted with half a dozen strapping backwoodsmen with rum on their breath and Valley Forge on their lips...
...This is the first major bill that uses a new definition of divestment," said Slate. "It will not exempt the whole trend of companies that only semi-divest," he said...
Under Graham's proposal, Coca-Cola would not be exempt from the "apartheid list," Slate said...
Perhaps the worst threat facing PTL is the loss of federal tax exemption. The tax code says that "no part" of an exempt group's earnings should benefit an individual. The IRS allows employees reasonable salaries but regularly yanks the exemptions of charities that give excessive pay and perks...
...matter. Rather than deal with the prince directly, however, he steered him to Richard Miller, a public relations agent and associate of Fund Raiser Carl ("Spitz") Channell. Last week Channell pleaded guilty to conspiring with North and Miller to raise money for the contras through a fraudulent tax- exempt foundation...