Word: exemptible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...profit institution, Harvard is exempt from property taxes. Rather than simply removing the Continental from Cambridge's steadily shrinking tax rolls, Harvard plans to work out an arrangement with the City to insure continued revenues, Schmidt said...
Need for Imports. Although Price Commission Chairman C. Jackson Grayson last week expressed concern that the jump in meat prices would hurt public confidence in Phase II controls, there is not much that he can do to stop it. Like other raw agricultural products, livestock is exempt from price control. Prices of processed meat theoretically are subject to control, but the commission has found it impractical to require packers to ask permission to raise prices every time the quotes on live animals rise...
...company's general salary policy, can result in pay boosts of no more than 7% annually. Moreover, most new merit contracts or plans must conform to the even lower 5.5% guideline for overall pay increases. The board's last previous position had made union merit raises exempt from the guidelines while holding nonunion employees to the 5.5% rule...
First, it is self-evident that individual signers of the petition thought the article an example of "legitimate scholarship". For my part, there are few areas of life--none in fact--that are intrinsically exempt from scholarly enquiry. I suspect the Dunster House sages who instigated the letter to the petition signers think otherwise, and I am certain they consider themselves perfectly capable of designating with certitude those facets of life that are outside of scientific enquiry...
...Board members were much more amenable in another matter: a request from the Salvation Army to raise its officers' salaries. Though members of the charitable organization are exempt from controls, Board Chairman George H. Boldt-infused with the holiday spirit-granted formal approval anyhow. Married officers who formerly earned $57.50 a week will now go to $60.50-with a guarantee of advancement to $66 in 15 years...