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...reserved for the Federal Government. Meanwhile the traditional base for municipal taxation-real estate-has stagnated, largely because of the move of businesses and middle-class families to the suburbs and the concomitant growth of inner city slums. Revenue from real estate taxes is further reduced by the tax-exempt status of government and other institutional holdings. In Detroit, 30% of developed land is lost to federal and state office buildings, schools and hospitals. Pittsburgh took 85 acres off its tax rolls with the construction of Three Rivers Stadium...
...year's key protectors of the environment were the courts, which paid unusual attention to a new breed of conservationist lawyers. Despite a threat by the Internal Revenue Service to take away their tax-exempt status, groups like the Environmental Defense Fund pressed suits against governmental agencies and private industries. Legal actions prodded the Departments of Agriculture and HEW to expand ?and start enforcing?an existing ban on DDT. In Alaska, the controversial pipeline was delayed in part by a private suit citing the Environmental Quality Act of 1969, which requires federal agencies to study the environmental impact...
Todd K. Jennings '71, president of the Independent, said last night that in making the grant the Independent was only fronting for his roommate, Richard G. Rockefeller '71. The Independent is a tax-exempt organization...
...anything until someone else first tried it. He would say: "Look, here are the giblets, Nikita. Have you tried them yet?" Khrushchev, knowing that his host wanted some for himself but was afraid to be first, would reply, "Oh, I forgot." The only member of his circle exempt from this tasting ritual was NKVD Chief Lavrenty Beria, who ate only food transported from his own dacha...
...sued. He does not intend to "launch a big accusatory tirade" against industry. But he has made it clear that the era of delay is over. He even welcomes help from "public-interest" law firms, which the Internal Revenue Service ruled last week can retain their tax-exempt status. The Ruckelshaus appointment requires Senate confirmation; so far, no opposition is expected...