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...board's policy of passing on the costs of inflation to tenants in the form of rent increases undermines the intention of rent control, Robert White, a Cambridge tenant said. Landords are, in effects exempt from inflation, giving them the same status in our community as priests," White added...
...armed forces. At present those needs total 350,000 per year. While enlistments currently fulfill about 99% of the Army's quota, a draft would provide it with a more representative cross-section. The pool of males available in that age group is 2.1 million. Women would be exempt...
...selection would be by lottery a year before service was to begin. Anyone not chosen would be exempt from any further call except in a case of national emergency...
However church money is handled, fiscal accountability is far looser than for other nonprofit organizations, which are required by law to keep records open to the public and follow standard bookkeeping practices. Churches have to meet no such formal standards and have been treated as exempt from government scrutiny under the constitutional guarantee of religious freedom. But more and more, church money raisers these days confront a growing public skepticism about how ecclesiastical cash is handled...
...contrary to popular delusion, the sheltered, self-contained oasis that is Harvard does not exempt its students from the occasional rip-off. Not simply as consumers, but as employees and burgeoning members of the working world, students are potential victims of private fraud and slow death-by-red-tape. Summer employment perhaps enerates the most calamities of all. A classic (and actual) case of summer employment rip-off involved a Harvard student this summer. One student pursued an ad in OCS-OCL's summer jobs file for a head-tennis-pro position, financed her own trip to Washington...