Word: exempted
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...Then there was Reagan's attempt, once he reached the White House in 1981, to reverse a long-standing policy of denying tax-exempt status to private schools that practice racial discrimination and grant an exemption to Bob Jones University. Lott's conservative critics, quite rightly, made a big fuss about his filing of a brief arguing that BJU should get the exemption despite its racist ban on interracial dating. But true to their pattern of white-washing Reagan's record on race, not one of Lott's conservative critics said a mumblin' word about the Gipper's deep personal...
...Lurie argued the council could lose its tax-exempt status if it awarded grants to student groups such as HRCF—which, unlike Hillel, the Harvard Islamic Society and the Catholic Student Association—formally require that students seeking leadership positions make a statement of faith...
...University has also sought to allay residents’ anxieties over its tax-exempt status, which could mean Allston losing millions in tax revenue...
...step to “encourage pollution prevention [and] provide incentives to install state-of-the-art pollution controls.” In fact, the effect of the law will be the exact opposite. Under the original grandfather clause, pre-1977 plants were exempt from modern pollution restrictions as long as the plants didn’t undertake any improvements. Without changes, when the plants became obsolete, their owners would have no choice but to make major improvements—and at the same time bring the plants up to modern pollution standards...
...violate our charter, we’ll lose our tax-exempt status,” Lurie said. “It?...