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...that issue, the negotiations foundered. To maintain competitive balance, the owners argued, clubs had to receive a player comparable in stature to the departing free agent. Under their proposal, a team that signed a free agent would be allowed to exempt 15 players from its major and minor league rosters; the player's original team would be able to pick a compensatory player from those who remained...
...American right. The government is to be forced off the backs of the people, through reductions in social services, safety regulations and income assistance, leaving private enterprise free to invest and expand in ways that will take up the slack for the abandoned government functions. The Defense Department is exempt from these cutbacks because it must increase preparedness against the world-wide Soviet threat. Furthermore, the government will cut taxes in an effort to encourage investment in the once-again-robust private sector...
...property is available at a reasonable price it has thus been sensible for the University to buy it." The possibility that Harvard would convert a portion of its extensive commercial holdings to institutional use sits like a lump in the throat of many city officials because that action would exempt the property from the tax rolls. "Harvard buys more and more property as opportunities come up," Vickery says, "and I'm concerned that they might convert some of those buildings," despite strict new guidelines on institutional expansion...
...study does not include any estimate of the negative economic impacts of Harvard on Cambridge, including the use of municipal services and the ownership of tax-exempt property. Rosen said the government and community affairs office would probably commission a study soon to determine the "net economic impact" of the University on Cambridge...
...wants to work in a lab? "I think medical school has more to offer than just teaching you to practice medicine. My education there will contribute to the type of researcher I am," he comments. As part of his MD-Ph.D program at Hopkins, Se-jin will be exempt from tuition in addition to receiving a $5,000 stipend each year...