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...organization feed more than 500 people at Thanksgiving; they hope to double that number this year. Their computerized data base has about 900 potential donors (half of them lawyers) of food, clothing, toys and money. In fact, the 15-year-old group is so formalized that it has tax-exempt status and a 15-page booklet to explain the group's goals to new members...
Republican Bob Packwood responded to pleas from the Oregon Winegrowers' Association to fight an 18 cents-per-bottle tax increase on wine. Packwood delivered: vineyards that produce less than 150,000 gal. a year will be exempt from the increase, and those that turn out up to 250,000 gal. will be partly spared. Roughly 1,000 of the 1,400 wineries in the nation, including 80 in Oregon, will get the breaks. Packwood has received $7,000 from the industry's political-action committees (PACs...
...deems useless to man or too costly to take along. If such a vision strains the imagination, consider the call by some Bush Administration officials to amend the Endangered Species Act. Their aim is to expand greatly the powers of a committee of political appointees that already can exempt species from the protection of the act when man's economic interests so dictate. The committee is commonly known as the "God Squad," not for its collective wisdom but because the decisions it may render were once left to an even higher authority...
...exceptions to the new truth-in-packaging program remain meat, poultry and egg products, which are regulated by the Department of Agriculture. Restaurant food, prepared dishes sold in supermarkets or delicatessens, infant formula and a few other items, most of them with little or no nutritive value, are likewise exempt...
...month ago the Justice Department made a ruling--consisting only of a news release--that the Idaho-Arizona Act exempts the red squirrel from the Endangered Species Act," says Witzeman. "It came as quite a surprise to the drafters of the act. They seem to think the squirrel is not exempt...