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This proposed ammendment on book sales would exempt only students; other persons buying books would continue to pay the tax. The state needs funds badly and the sales tax remains the best foreseeable way to raise them. The legislators have already recognized the necessity of exempting required textbooks, but any system of enforcing such a limited exemption will prove far too costly and cumbersome. In any event, the loss of revenue which the state would experience under a blanket exemption of student book sales is hardly worth quibbling about...
...battle over parking spaces has Cambridge officials told Radcliffe they would not exempt the Library or the adjacent Fourth House from zoning requirements. The ordinance calls for one more parking space for every 1000 square feet of buildings, although the space can be several blocks away...
Radcliffe argued that, as an education-institution, it should be exempt from the ordinance -- and won its case in a lower court last July. The city promptly appealed...
...struggles for power-dam sites along the nation's rivers, publicly owned utilities have long enjoyed substantial advantages over private companies. Exempt from local taxation, able to finance their ventures with low-cost, tax-free bonds, they can offer consumers cheap power-at the general expense of taxpayers everywhere. And the Federal Power Act gives them preference over private claims to the same water resources...
...fine is aimed at chronic violators who ignore recall polices and pay only 10 cents a day for each overdue book. It will apply to students and teaching follows. Professors, including assistance professors, are exempt from the fine...