Word: exempted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three decades, relations between the University and the City have grown slowly better. "The real friction used to be back in the '20's and '30's when you always had a rising tax rate," recalls one city official. "The politicians would always blame the rise on the tax-exempt properties of the University. In those days, the Universities were the politicians' kicking boards...
...editors asked. Hiring could then be done by seniority in each group. This time the Guild demurred. All that the mediators could do was to send each side home to work out counterproposals. That still left the problem of deciding on the "dingleberries"-the employees who would be exempt from seniority restrictions because of "special skills and outstanding abilities...
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...