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Other strategies call for utilization of federal revenue sharing funds, replacement of the property tax with a sales tax, the taxing of presently exempt universities, and reduction of "waste and inefficiency" in the municipal government...
Moncreiff is probably most proud of the Council's efforts to normalize the collective bargaining process for public employees. For years, the firemen and police considered themselves exempt from the usual budget process, as they bypassed the city manager and went directly to the Council to have their wage increases set by ordinance. "Whatever we gave them," Moncreiff explains, "the city manager felt duty bound to give to everyone else...
Under questioning by Senators Herman Talmadge (D-Ga.) and Edward Gurney (R-Fla.) of the Senate's Watergate committee, Buchanan defended his recommendation that the tax-exempt status of nonprofit foundations be reexamined and if possible made a subject of public debate by advancing the theory that most if not all such foundations--specifically the Ford Foundation, the Brookings Institute and the Institute of Politics--belong to what he called America's "liberal establishment...
...exemptions. Cambridge City Council Monday night unanimously ordered the Board of Assessors to determine whether three tax-exempt properties should be on the local tax rolls. The resolution specifically cite the official residences of President Bok, President Horner and Rev. Krister Stendahl, dean of the Divinity School, but also requested an investigation of all Harvard property...
...with all these interesting and important efforts before them, the generals found time to exempt one Leftist, Communist poet Pablo Neruda, from the general proscription. Neruda, they explained, was a national treasure. So when he died of cancer Sunday night, the generals sent condolences to his widow...