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...enough. One element would be a tax increase, perhaps taking advantage of the drop in oil prices to impose an oil-import fee and gasoline tax. The rest of the savings would come from cuts spread more evenly across the board--including defense and even Social Security, which is exempt from the automatic reductions required by Gramm-Rudman...
Vehicles manufactured without seat belts are unaffected by the law, and a certified medical reasons could exempt certain people from the law. School buses are also unaffected...
...irony of a vastly wealthy and powerful educational institution--tax exempt by virtue of its altruistic mission--encroaching on neighborhoods and displacing people's lives is not unique to Manhattan. The contrast between a university's role as a center of enlightenment and its insensitive treatment of tenants in its community is as obvious and painful for many Cantabrigians as it is for Schwartz's neighbors...
Most of the thousands of substances which are at least mildly toxic are used in very small amounts, and the state should exempt research labs from having to report what they are doing with the chemicals and get permits, Doherty said...
...sales do not lead to direct eviction of current tenants by the new owner, the prices at which the University has offered these houses are so high that purchasers have to demand significantly higher rents, forcing current tenants to move elsewhere. Because owner-occupied houses with rental units are exempt from the city's rent control laws, tenants are left unprotected. As Harvard sells off these houses, occupants will be forced...