Word: exemption
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supported busing for parochial students is constitutional; but somehow state funds for field trips are not. The purchase of somehow state funds for field tripos are not. The purchase of textbooks for parochial students is permissible; buying a film projector is not. Churches and religious schools are constitutionally tax exempt; tuition tax credits...
...another problem: how cruise missiles should be defined in the draft treaty that the U.S. was preparing to table in Geneva. Perle wanted the definition written in such a way that the zero option would apply only to nuclear-armed cruise missiles; those with conventional warheads would be exempt. The trouble was that the distinction would be virtually impossible for either side to verify. There would be no way to tell a nuclear-armed cruise missile from one that was conventionally armed. Besides, the Joint Chiefs took the position that a conventionally armed ground-launched cruise missile would represent...
...result student groups are quiet, increasingly stripped of power, and heavily criticized when they step outside limited boundaries. Sure, there were problems with the actions of students in the late 60s and early 70s, but the ideas and actions supported by a majority today are not exempt from criticism. From the Grenada rally and the Weinberger speech emerge ideas seemingly unquestioned, that need much more debate...
...addition, cities such as Cambridge, which already have condo conversion laws on the books, are exempt from the new law. Cambridge's law restricts condominiums by requiring permission from the rent control board if a rent-controlled apartment is removed from the market...
...woman who exercises anything short of vigilance during her encounters with men is either dauntless or unaware; for as any newspaper reader knows, even policemen, doctors, priests, and fathers--society's protectors and healers--are not automatically exempt from the ranks of sexual abusers. Even some of Harvard's revered faculty members are not inherently above tormenting a student whom they happen to find attractive...